Will Pugh is chief architect and co-founder at SourceLabs. He's worked in the software industry for over a decade in both start-ups and established companies like BEA and Microsoft.
One of the most exciting things about the software industry is how fast it
moves. Software is constantly optimizing itself around the state-of-the-art.
Inherent industry bottlenecks change cyclically every five years or so.
Architectures and solutions change too. CPUs too costly? Enter dumb
terminals. Network running slow? Build client/servers. It comes full circle
– the network becomes fast again and thin clients talk to big servers.
Networks become really fast, now you have grids. At the beginning of each of
these paradigm shifts, it’s not always immediately obvious what
we’ll look back on as the brilliant technology decision that carried
the day.
The indisputable force in recent years – open source – has come
to be renowned as the innovation to take on innovation itself. As a direct
result of the transformation of the software indust... (more)
Will Pugh is chief architect and co-founder at SourceLabs. He's worked in the software industry for over a decade in both start-ups and established companies like BEA and Microsoft.
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