Software engineering [technology 1999 analysis and forecast]
Richard Vincent Comerford · IEEE Spectrum · 1999
More than ever, the nature of software engineering is determined by standards, whether set by an organization or decided by the marketplace. So the ability to control and direct those standards' development is seen by some companies as vital to their future. Witness the battle being waged over Java, the software language that is firmly establishing object oriented technology as the cornerstone of the modern networked enterprise. And witness, too, the way standards are being treated by those who create Web software.