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raffe writes:
Q&A with Ron Hovsepian CEO of Novell. He described 'a love-hate thing' between the two companies over at computerworld. From the article:
"This past May, I picked up the phone and called Kevin Turner, the COO at Microsoft. I knew Kevin when he was the CIO at Wal-Mart. I said, "Kevin, I'd like to have a conversation about what the customer needs. If you could put back on your old hat as a customer, if I came in and started talking to you about virtualization on Linux, and this Microsoft guy showed up and started talking to you about virtualization on Windows, what would you say to us?"
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raffe writes:
Paul Graham writes about 18 resons startups fail. From the article: "In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed — if you avoid every cause of failure, you succeed — and that's too big a question to answer on the fly."
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raffe writes:
Steve Yegge at Google posts his views on agile development and som intersting bits about life at google. From the article:
"From a high level, Google's process probably does look like chaos to someone from a more traditional software development company. As a newcomer, some of the things that leap out at you include:
— there are managers, sort of, but most of them code at least half-time, making them more like tech leads.
— Google has a philosophy of not ever telling developers what to work on, and they take it pretty seriously."
