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Jun
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Software is a pretty unique trade (or engineering discipline) in that there's rarely a physical manifestation of your endeavors - showing your Mother a CD or Web Page isn't quite the same as walking her across a bridge or driving her in a car you helped design. Fortunately I have been involved in a number of projects where the software was used to control a physical thing - trains, satellites and have been lucky enough to be involved in some of the provisioning - the phase of the project where the software is controlling the train or device on a satellite - design meets real world. Fun times. But this really takes the prize - putting your project on a huge earthquake simulator and seeing how it stands up.
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Oct
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As Mary mentions - Project Blackbox is causing a real stir internally - reframing a problem with such an innovative solution really causes people to break their pre-conceived ideas and think out of the box as well. The interest isn't just internal - I was talking at Sun's EBC today and had quite a battle bringing the conversation back to software strategy - the customer really wanted to brainstorm some uses for Blackbox; debate the economics of water cooling over Freon; understand the logistics of deploying a backup data center.
Over lunch we had a quick tour of the Blackbox 'pilot' (which is sitting outside Sun's Menlo Park EBC) - there were six or seven other customers and everyone was engaged in similar discussions. Some of the discussions I overheard we're nearly as interesting as Blackbox itself.
I managed to snap a couple of pictures (below) on my "thing that used to be a phone" - Jonathan Schwartz and Bill Vass we're there but I didn't get any pictures of them.
I just wonder how we handle the try-n-buy program !
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