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Subject: Re: S/W Component Engineers (try2)
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Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 20:57:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 20:57:52 1987
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>     I believe that as the software industry grows it will reach
>  a level where large companies have a software components
>  engineering group with e.g.: one engineer responsible
>  for DBMS's another for ARTE's, another for scientific
>  routines etc.

Japan's "Software Factories" already do something analogous.  I
read a paper about the Toshiba Fuchu Works.  They have a "Software
Parts Manufacturing Department" something like what you suggest.


Steven Litvintchouk
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