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2004-11-04-quickElephant

CREATED BY chris • LAST EDITED BY chris 7106 days AGO

Adam Bosworth: "About 9 years ago it became clear to me that, all things being equal, the current model of building software for a specific API to be deployed on someone's desk was going to be far less sucessful than the model of deploying a service. Why so? [...] These days Microsoft gives birth to new products at a pace that makes an elephant seem quick, about every 60 months, that means in the time that a service can make 60 adaptions to its customer's needs, Microsoft makes one."