I’ve been in the Software Development realm for about 5 years, and it has been along time 
since I’ve actually looked back at the theory behind the whole life of Software Development in general. Every now and again you just go back to the books just to check yourself and make sure that you are still on track.
Found a nice blog post revisiting Boehm’s Spiral Model to Software Development.
The reason why I did not post for a few days is cause I’ve been busy at a client site installing some of the products I’ve been working on and fixing some performance problems.
Anyways, one of the main servers I worked on was a Dell with 8 x Intel Xeon CPU’s,with strangely enough 4GB ram …
When performing operations you almost don’t even see a bump on Task Manager, but it is always a pleasure working with effecient equipment instead of the once-in-a-while “desktop”-servers.
I found the following YouTube video, where Eric Schmidt and Douglas Merrill talk about how they are using the same applications which are available to everyone else in the world internally to store all their documents, handle collaboration and use it for all internal running of the company.
Could this be something that could grow bigger and maybe into other enterprises and companies ?
I see it as it is all right that they use it for themselves, as they are in control of the servers and data, but for a 3rd party company I still see the risk of an external company being in control of your data. What do you reckon ? Will Google Apps be feasible for large corporates out there ? It could work for small startups though …
I’m planning to attend the next 27 Dinner in Johannesburg with the next one coming up the 27th of May 2008. I probably would have gone earlier, but some strange reason I thought is was only in Cape Town some time ago when I heard people talking about it.
This will be my very first time at such an event, and I’m already taking two people with me that I feel will be a great asset taking with, as they’ve got lots of ideas floating around, and this would only do them good getting those ideas out and getting in touch with other people in the industry.
Hope to meet the faces behind the sites and innovations. See you there!
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