Digital world is real world
Ike Nassi is something of a renaissance man in IT, having held senior technical positions at SAP, Cisco, Apple, DEC and several other companies. He's now the senior vice-president for research at SAP Labs US. Nassi founded Firetide and co-founded Encore Computer, and he helped start the Computer History Museum in California. He has held positions at Stanford University, MIT, Boston University and the University of California, Berkeley. Nassi played key roles in the design of the Ada programming language and the Mach operating system. He recently told IDG's GARY ANTHES what's driving change in the software world.