Ray Ozzie delivered the keynote speech at PDC 2008 a few moments ago. He spoke about a number of interesting topics. Challenges of Virtualization & Distributed Systems Ray suggested that business continuity is a challenge not easily addressed by small and medium enterprises. The only real way to...
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I was fortunate to attend a Microsoft event in London today on the topic of Software plus Services, at which the keynote speaker was none other than Microsoft CEO Mr. Steve Ballmer. He was not what I expected - I was pleasantly surprised. He comes across as genuine but direct and to the point, humourous...
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I was reading an article by David Overton , a Microsoft employee whose opinions I really respect. Of course, being a Microsoft employee he is always keen to play up the benefits of Microsoft's products, but I think he manages to do so in a fair and reasonable way and his comments are always rooted...
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I was in the San Francisco Bay area during the last days of the DotCom bubble. I saw it crumble before my very eyes, I saw vast swathes of office blocks with empty car parks where once they were full of software engineers trying to create the next killer application. I saw my stock options evapourate...
I was just reading a post by Joel Spolsky on the Joel on Software blog. Joel was dispensing advice on how to make yourself look more valuable to prospective employers. He touched on something that I've been contemplating a lot lately: "Opportunities seem more valuable to us when their availability...
Answer: when it is free software . A few days ago I wrote about "free software" and said that I disliked the terminology. An article on the IMPACT blog looks at the rise of open source software and I'm pleased to note that they also consider the name "contentious".
Via the iQubed blog , this article describes a lecture by Richard Stallman, leader of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) about the morals, ethics and politics. He says of free-software (free of restrictions, not necessarily free of charge): "This is about ethics [...] that is, good and evil". Of course...