pc,
>Academic pressures may be very different from commercial pressures.
There may be differences in the relative magnitude of
each, but I suspect both will run over the complete spectrum.
>A commercial context may turn out to be more innovative,
>ironically. My experience with an academic environment was that
>ideas took second place to politics, and innovation was not
>encouraged. That's one reason I left.
This also happens in the commercial world, especially with companies
in a dominant market position (ten years from now I expect to see
some interesting analyses of the goings on at Microsoft, who continually
fail to innovate internally {they buy it in from start-ups}, often in very costly
ways).
I know we read a lot about successful innovation in the commercial world.
But there is a lot more failed innovation and plenty of non-innovation that
is just hyped up.
Software development processes in industry might almost be viewed as
being driven by the same forces as evolution. Those that work get copied,
those that fail die (ie go bust/not copied {that is not to say they are not
repeated independently elsewhere)).
derek
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