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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the disco-is-not-dead dept.

fedor writes "Software fashions come and go, but they always claim a few victims on the way. Where there's fashion, you'll find that rather weak willed person who is the Stupid Fashion Victim (or the SFV for short). This great article from Software Reality is all about fashion in software. Do you all remember WAP? In a couple of years some of the current 'technologies' will be gone too. The article mentions VB.NET, struts and XP as current fashion..."

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  1. What about CORBA? by DrInequality · · Score: 5, Insightful
    He hit all of my favourites: XML, Visual Fred, etc...

    But missed CORBA! Surely it belongs in the Technology X != Silver Bullet category. As far as I'm concerned, CORBA best solves the "this project has too many resources" problem.

    But then again, I'm probably just another SFV :-)

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  2. More ignorant flamebait... by M.C.+Hampster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the article:

    VB.Net is really just syntactic sugar on top of C#. C# offers more and better libraries.

    That alone should tell you that the author has no clue as to what they are talking about. I am most definately not a VB.NET fan, but that statement is just false and shows a huge lack of understanding of the .NET Framework.

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  3. Missing the biggest stupid software fashion by 0WaitState · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The biggest stupid software fashion is IT outsourcing--it has reached the point where every corporate middle manager feels they have to have a story on how they're outsourcing, long before (if ever) outsourcing has proven any reliable ROI.

    Unfortunately, unlike other stupid fads applied to software such as TQM, ISO9000, RUP, etc., outsourcing does real economic damage to the victims, (as opposed to just the psychological damage represented by trying to work around the others).

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