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

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched.

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The Paradox of Leadership

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Here, I am going to focus on institutional leaders, but I have also explored the implications for systems leaders as part of my work leading a World Economic Forum Council (our white paper is available as a pdf here ). What will be the role of leaders in scalable learning institutions? But they will still require leaders.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. When you lower the cost of failing with new web application projects, you have an opportunity to change the dynamics of decision-making in your company towards encouraging more innovation. All Things Distributed. Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

This White Paper is for informational purposes only. ​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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