Most Large Manufacturers Would balk at the thought of hand-building every car or router that they make instead of relying on preassembled components. Why then, asks Charles Stack, do those companies or their vendors still build much of their software programming from scratch? "People don't build anything from scratch anymore except software. It's ridiculous," says Stack, CEO of Cleveland-based Flashline, which provides software reuse solutions. "What we're doing is building software based on the engineering model."
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