Speed of Testing and Integration
In my "Open Source Paradigm Shift" paper, I draw analogies between the commodification of PC hardware and the commodification of software via open source and open standards, and make the case that the right model for Linux vendors to learn from is not software companies like Microsoft but supply-chain optimizers like Dell. (That has been the basis of my interest in companies like SpikeSource and SourceLabs, which focus on open source integration and testing.) So I was interested to see this note in Slashdot this morning: "The Linux Kernel is now getting automatically tested within 15 minutes of a new version being released, across a variety of hardware and the results are being published for all to see."
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Yes, Ian and I have talked about this. We are very much on the same page about where open source is taking the industry, and what the knobs and levers will be for controlling software success in the future. I debated mentioning Progeny when I wrote this entry, but I haven't kept up with what they are up to. I should, since Ian is one of the most interesting thinkers on software that I know.
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Donnie Berkholz [06.06.05 11:36 PM]
This seems eerily similar to a recent Ian Murdock essay.