00 has won the battle, but the war is not yet over. Success stories have been reported. Reuse has been observed in practice. Work is progressing to deal with a full lifecycle and to tackle mega systems. While the transition to 00 may or may not be obvious for an individual, it is a complex affair? if not a nightmare, for large organizations. Programmers in divisions are often eager to go 00, their managers are often hesitant. A recurring question is how to deal with the large body of existing software that must keep running while at the same time it becomes more and more of a liability. Corporate software research may be “miles ahead” of what goes on in divisions, but it is not obvious how to transfer these insights and practices into divisional trenches.
