This whitepaper by Steve Graves, president and cofounder of McObject and developer of the eXtremeDB in-memory database system, argues that software development is following in the footsteps of hardware development with respect to the growing use of ready-made components. According to Graves, the use of off-the-shelf embedded software components — having gotten its start with embedded and real-time… operating systems — is now expanding into ever-more areas of embedded software, including middleware and other complex software components such as protocol stacks, messaging, data management, and more.

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