An Update on Software Updates
David J. Brown · Queue · 2005
When I raised the idea at the Queue editorial advisory board meeting several months ago, it was because I think the way that software is now being delivered to us is quite interesting. Things have changed. Nowadays you much less often expect to “install” whole systems or indeed even individual applications. Instead you’ve probably become quite used to the idea of accepting ongoing updates to what you already have - a behavior of happily receiving incremental changes to your software systems and/or applications - by what I like to describe as the process of “bit dripping” from vendors over the Web.