Werner Vogels is leaving the academic confines of Cornell for a new job building distributed applications at Amazon.com. He reports that a lot of people are surprised he wasn't sucked into Microsoft first. He explains why he's going to Amazon, including:
The challenges that Amazon faces are orders of magnitude different from the solutions that Microsoft is working on. Microsoft and others are developing their software targeting the largest market. Internet giants such as Amazon are not a big market, and their challenges need to be address by significantly different architectures, which would take a huge investment by MS and colleagues to deliver on. And it will not sell them millions of additional OS licenses. For someone like me who is interested in scalability and robustness Amazon clearly has the more challenging problem set. ...Back to Compendium
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