Dalkeith (6/3/2013)

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Software will be the last bastion of hand made manufacturing and it is experiencing all the problems associated with that method of construction.

Tortuous time scales

Unpredictable project outcomes.

Inconsistency of quality even from the same software houses.

Lack of scalability in production

Non standardisation

Difficult to maintain and repair

Real difficulty in finding talented staff

Costly

My hope is that we will reach a stage where significant platform change is irrelevant.

This will be the start of the era when software can really take advantage of its true digital promise - immortality. Software then will truly run the world.