The official announcement is not due for 7 weeks, but the rumor is that IBM has new technology involving a massive BlueGene/Q system that will replace most of their software engineers, and that they have hired Jesse Anderson to lead the project
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/deepcomputing/solutions/bluegene/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem http://www.jesse-anderson.com/2011/10/a-few-million-monkeys-randomly-recreate-every-work-of-shakespeare/ On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>wrote: > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:57:18 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: > > > >IBM has been using Agile development for the past couple/few z/OS > releases. I am > >not aware that this development model has been blamed for any recent > increase in > >defects or if such an increase even exists. > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development > > > Gee, are you suggesting that some new technologies might be as good as > or even better than what was used in the previous century? You'll have > a hard time convincing some people. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
