Opera Bites the Dust - moves to WebKit

[ppurka]

[smartass]

ppurka, what field is that?

As for vertical integration and bloatware (to make BK happy), I think people don't really understand what they want when they talk about integration. They usually want some existing tools to communicate with each other, share information and act as a bigger system. That's called interoperability. Integration takes some tools and makes a completely new, bigger tool.

It's the mentality "I want this to work with this. Guess I'll have to add more glue and afterwards the whole thing won't be able to break apart". Bullshit ! The AK-47 remains the most widely used weapon because of it's serviceability as it's made of easy-to-assemble, simple parts. The first solid-looking M16s would jam all the time.

Next time somebody tells you to integrate something, ask him if he wants you just to improve the interoperability to save time and money and ensure future reusability.

As for vertical integration, that's a company practice to gain a monopoly. And that's something that should be regulated like in other industries.

tl;dr: IT needs to become a full blown industry with all the respective regulations and employ smarter managers that really care to build on top of past and established development to save time and money.

[Bones McCracker]

"Integration" does not imply a merging or unification, such that the once-separate become inseparable. It merely implies making the once separate effectively cooperative components of a larger system. Integration is a well-established term in the industry, and if people are abusing it to refer to the fusion or merging of things, they're confused.

[ppurka]

[avx]