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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver.

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Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. Others who made assumptions about capabilities, support, networks, etc are going to be scrambling to fix bugs and make their site just “work”. Here at Yahoo!, Seriously, this stuff is pure gold especially today. That was 2008.

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