Drop-in replacement

Drop-in replacement ( German mutatis mutandis as substitute for immediate use ) is a term used in computer science and other engineering disciplines. The term refers to the ability of a software component or a component to replace an existing component and completely to her, compatible to be. The system integrator has the advantage that the migration can be carried out seamlessly without extensive system changes.

Examples of drop-in replacements :

Postfix or qmail replace Sendmail and are compatible with the command line interface used by Sendmail .
MariaDB replaces MySQL , whereby it is compatible with the database, the SQL dialect and most of the tools.

Individual evidence

↑ Yanek Korff, Paco Hope, Bruce Potter: Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security . O'Reilly Verlag, Sebastopol 2005, ISBN 0-596-00626-8 . Page 241 and page 255.

[1] Yanek Korff, Paco Hope, Bruce Potter: Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security . O'Reilly Verlag, Sebastopol 2005, ISBN 0-596-00626-8 . Page 241 and page 255.