Average life of software is generally about a decade or two. It mostly depends on quite many factors. If we consider just the technical factors that decide the life span of software, we will realize that absolutely every phase, through which software goes, plays some role in deciding the life span of the software. How good are the requirements identified and understood, how good is the design and architecture, how good it is developed and tested, how well it is monitored and understood during its life, how well the changes are forecasted, designed, planned and implemented to keep the software in line with the current trends and changing requirements and finally how and what knowledge and wisdom is fetched from the software during it's life and retirement phase and how well that is transferred to the new application and many more...

It was composed of three components – A Webcam, A specially designed pen-like pointer devices with three L.E.D.s mounted and a JAVA application to parse every frame captured by Webcam to find the position of the pointer and move the mouse pointer on computer screen accordingly.

The application was capable of handling mouse movements, clicks and double clicks, drags by using the pointer. This app gives user the freedom to operate the computer from long distance.