By adding more servers, making existing servers faster and upgrading software the company could boost capacity 500% a year or more if it needed to, he avers.
Over the past year, Apple and Google have been upgrading their software to attract corporate clients.
"Once the cameras are installed and operational, once they're networked to central computers, then it's a simple matter of upgrading the software, " he says.
Equally important are the engineering practices of Extreme Programming (XP), particularly test-driven development, simplicity of design, pair programming and re-factoring (upgrading and simplifying) software code.
Microsoft could sell all of the peripheral businesses and commit to simply upgrading those two pieces of software (and perhaps the enterprise stuff) into the future until they are entirely finished in the marketplace.
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For those who consider gaming their utmost priority, they take things one step further, telling them flat out to hold off on upgrading until ATI and NVIDIA get their software up to speed.
Imagine downloading a software upgrade for your cable box from the Internet or upgrading your printer with a mouse click (for more on PLDs click here).
The problem with servers and software, however, is that they are in constant need of upgrading--an expensive and time-consuming process.
It is too soon to say that the "reset" -- or, to use a broader metaphor, the upgrading of Italy's cultural, political and economic software -- will fail again.
Sabre Holdings' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
Sabre Holdings (nyse: TSG - news - people )' hotel reservations arm, likewise, has cut operating costs by 50% by upgrading to embrace newer computer languages such as Java and run on open-source software.
And some of the supposed "costs", such as new bank software or renewal of cash machinery, would probably have to be incurred anyway as part of routine maintenance or upgrading.
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