Life in Redmond
Imagine this:
“Everyone has an office (a few people share), doors are often closed, and people are heads down working. […] Sounds are muted, there’s no animation from the employees, it just seems like it could be an accounting firm as much as it could be a software developer. I’m not sure what I was expecting, maybe more people running around with Nerf dart guns, maybe more people excited and jazzed about what they’re working on. A few loud “Yes”s or “Aha”s, following by someone outside their cube, reveling passerbys with the amazing code they’re just written. ”
Source: Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral.com
That’s what things are like, according to Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral.com, for the SQL Server team at Microsoft as they busily prepare the next great version of SQL Server. Things have been delayed already. And as it goes, they may need to change the name to SQL Server 2009. “2008″ already sounds dated.
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April 28th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
He was on the work holodeck. That stuff that you would expect really does go on off of the holodeck.