Despite these differences, both companies share a heritage of software engineering, said a Yahoo technologist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the company had not authorized him to speak publicly.
Typically these efficiencies are grounded on apparently solid rationale, such as reuse of heritage hardware or software.
The vast majority of buyers in this market are of Indian heritage, from Bangalore software engineers to lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists living in the U.S. Most are relatively young between 35 and 50 years old.
Data collection is at the heart of this workflow and is informed by the results of using non-invasive and invasive technologies, which again is governed by an agreed 3D data strategy noting all parameters of environment, hardware, software, technicians and the cultural heritage object itself.
The latest, in 2007, contained 1,110 pages of tables, including breakdowns of the estimated value of each government department's tangible fixed assets (including heritage sites), intangibles (such as software licences) and shareholdings.
Wolfram Alpha's heritage comes from Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica software, which has been around for more than 20 years.
The company got a lift from robust sales of new models of mainframes — I.B.M.'s heritage — while its biggest current businesses, software and services, generated healthy growth as well.
The software industry is poised to embrace its craft heritage.
As computers get better at rendering three-dimensional images, cultural-heritage organizations are using architectural-modeling software to reconstruct historic places.
The mobile software still bears the Android name in acknowledgment of its heritage.
