The future of object technology

In the future, object technology will not be confined to a niche. Objects will be pervasive; very little serious software will not be object-oriented at least in some way in 1998 and beyond. Object technology isn´t a matter of fashion. It´s simply that no-one really knows how to tackle the kind of sophisticated systems that our users now want, without using object technology. It´s also that no one has found anything better. Since object technology came into prominence a decade ago, pundits have at various times predicted its demise, with the inevitable periodic announcements of the so-called “Object Winter”-an allusion to the “AI Winter” that froze the spread of artificial intelligence in the late 1970s-but winter has not come, and all the signs indicate that spring will continue