Borland gets Tod Nielsen, former bigwig in the Microsoft developer divison

What goes around, comes around.  Microsoft steals Anders Hejlsberg as C# chief architect; Borland picks up former Microsoft developer divison honcho Tod Nielsen as CEO. Admittedly not an apples-for-apples comparison, i.e. development vs. marketing, but it is interesting none-the-less. Given his tenure at MS’ devdiv, I’d be surprised it Tod doesn’t do a good job of …

All your Base are belong to Google?

When I saw that Google Base just went live, my first thought was "All your base are belong to us."  I fear this might be ironic. After a quick Google I found I wasn’t the only one to have thought this.  

Simple technologies recombined, not technological breakthroughs, spur disruptive innovations

Yesterday when I blogged about simplicity I forgot to mention Clayton Christensen‘s take on simple technology. Clayton’s ground-breaking book was entitled "The Innovator’s Dilemma" and is a must-read for any developer who wants to understand the business dynamics between market incumbency and innovative uses of technology. From his extensive research Christensen states in The Innovator’s Dilemma …

Next Generation Demo Software with VMware Player

I just spotted the new free VMware Player.  This is totally cool.  I can envision companies using VMWare Player to demo complete environments, like an ASP.NET & SQL Server Express application; just configure the virtual machine to have everything needed! This basically eliminates most potential configuration problems that could cause a vendor to loose a …

Microsoft’s New Operating System: Singularity

Check this out: a new "In the Lab Only" operating system called Singularity. From their website: Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques …