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February 27, 2006
Crossing a Watershed
Bob told me they write as little software as possible. "The more we leverage open-source software, the happier I am. We also put our code out on Sourcce Forge for anyone else to use. The principal value is no longer in software."
Listening to Bob talk with his colleagues and students re-enforced the notion that we've crossed a threshold. The industry began with the hardware era and IBM was king. Hardware was followed by the software era and Microsoft was king. Today, we've crossed into the data / knowledge era, and, so far at least, Google is king. I'd think it would be tough to be Steve Ballmer today.
Posted by DavidK at February 27, 2006 05:28 PM | Permalink