Bengt Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:07:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) > wrote: > > >Renato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> all of the native administration tools of RedHat (all versions) and > >> Fedora Core are written in python (system-config-* and/or > >> redhat-config-* ). And even more importantly, yum (the official > >> software package manager for Fedora and RHEL) and Anaconda (OS > >> installer) are written in Python, too. > > > >BTW, Chip Turner (from RedHat, and deeply involved in those > >developments) happened to start at Google the same day I did;-). > > > So is google about to determine how many luminaries can fit on the head of > a project? ;-) Seriously, if you heavies do sometimes work on the same > project, it would be interesting to know what modes of co-operation you > tend to adopt.
Google's official position (per the article Hal Varian and Eric Schmidt wrote recently) is that we are a "consensus-oriented culture". I _have_ worked in companies with consensus-oriented cultures, such as IBM in the '80s (where it sometimes paralized everything, since one manager's "non-concur" was enough to block progress on a project), and I would respectfully disagree (on this point only -- the rest of their article is quite consonant with my personal experiences) with our beloved leader and our most excellent advisor. I would say we're a *results-oriented* corporate culture... sometimes egos may get bruised, but we're all supposed to have small-enough, resilient-enough egos to survive and remain happy and productive anyway;-). Check the xooglers' blog for others' opinions... Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list