71.   Objects are the first real revolution in the way we write software to come along in the last two decades.

72.   One trick is writing the software to give alarms only when appropriate.

73.   Open source software is written by hundreds of volunteers, many of whom will never earn a dime from their labors.

74.   One team, for instance, is developing an online trading system for a Singapore securities firm, while another is writing software for a credit union in Utah.

75.   Oracle specializes in writing database software, which lets hundreds of users store and retrieve volumes of data such as merchandise orders on powerful computers.

76.   Oracles writes software that helps companies store and retrieve huge amounts of information, such as inventories and customers lists.

77.   Open source, they say, is ultimately more secure because the people writing security software know exactly how the systems they are protecting run.

78.   PowerCerv writes software that helps programmers write other software quickly.

79.   Programmers are changing how they write software.

80.   Rhapsody will let developers write software for both Apple Macintosh computers and for PCs running on Windows and Pentium chips.