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Appendix: Traditional Software
Development versus Complete
Off-the-Shelf Applications
In the past few decades, all of us have witnessed a procession of different methodologies, tools,
and techniques emanating from the software industry that have had a tremendous impact on the
very nature and operations of business enterprises. But in the midst of all this turmoil, one fact
has remained constant and that has been the lack of productivity improvements, irrespective of the
extent and nature of computerization.
But right from the start, there was an even more basic problem in terms of the number of software
applications that were actually comple ...