My very on computing law

Call it the Krischik law:

Any successful lightweight solution will grow over time until it becomes just as heavy weight as the solution it was designed to replace or compete with — only lacking the original solutions elegance.

Ok, the last part only applies when the original solution had some elegance.

Examples would be:

• SPING — now does everything EJB does.
• C — The ISO standard has just as many pages as the one from Ada only Ada is object orientated.
• LDAP — was it ever less complex then DAP?