How Amazon cashes in on its Cloud

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Judith

I had a very interesting conversation with Jeff Barr, the senior web services evangelist at Amazon. I have known Jeff for almost 15 years. In those days Jeff was one of the architects at a company called Visix, an early graphical development environment that was ahead of its time. Visix’s software development environment [...]

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Software development and the Nascar Business Model

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Judith

I had an interesting meeting with a company called TopCoder the other day. The premise is actually quite simple: conduct contests with monetary prizes given to the software developer who writes the best programs. What started out as an academic exercise has evolved into an intriguing software company.
The idea behind the company is [...]

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