Category: 1. Software Industry
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Competition Knows no Boundaries #brexit
More unexpected fallout from the #brexit campaign. Story here (in German). Basically, a German party send an ad-mobile to London to advertise Berlin as the new home for startups.
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An Alternative View of Funding for Innovation
My rant on what’s wrong with Industrie 4.0 argued that it focuses too narrowly on too incremental a domain. The real tectonic change of the last 20-30 years in my opinion is the speed of innovation that software gives you over any other technology domain. Whatever the gadget or concept, if you can add software…
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What’s wrong with Industrie 4.0?
Short answer A lot. The overly narrow focus on a particular domain of innovation starves the support for innovation is other domains, making Germany lose out in those domains. This has been bugging me for some time now. Longer answer Somehow German politics declared “Industrie 4.0” (industry 4.0) to be a major area of innovation…
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Open Source Collaboration—The Other Open Source Innovation (in German)
Below, please find a blog post in preparation of the Bitkom OSS Forum in July 2016. Open-Source-Software ist zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil von Softwareprodukten geworden. Es gibt praktisch keine Software mehr, die nicht auch auf Open Source aufbaut. Unternehmen, welche Open-Source-Software in ihren Produkten verwenden, machen sich meist Sorgen um die rechtlichen Konsequenzen, welche Open-Source-Lizenzen…
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The Internet is Eating the Things
A lot of my industry talks emphasize the value of software over hardware because of the significantly higher speed of innovation. In a well run continuous software engineering (DevOps) organization, you can go from commit to production within seconds. Try that with hardware! The feedback you can gather from customers and the market is at…
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Software is Eating the World auf Deutsch
My university is preparing a bid for a major (fairly broad) German computer science conference. We are wondering how one would translate Marc Andreesen’s diktum “software is eating the world” into German. Software verschlingt die Welt? Naja. Vorschläge gern gesehen, Kommentare auch.