In sharp contrast to the Duchess of Windsor’s adage about never being too rich or too thin, software can never be too subtle or too bloated. Which may be one reason that software’s adoption by small businesses is, well, very thin indeed.

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Software code is like an ever expanding gas, with script code tending to expand faster than most other kinds. Part of this expansion is due to ordinary maintenance, but it has costs. Fortunately, these can be identified and reduced, often with some serendipitous results.
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