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Horse And Buggy

March 21, 2011 10 comments

Werner Vogels is Amazon.com’s Chief Technology Officer and author of the blog “All Things Distributed – Building Scalable And Robust Distributed Systems“. I just couldn’t stop myself from laughing when he announced that fellow distributed-systems guru Steve Vinoski had just joined Twitter:

Specifically, the last sentence put me in stitches. As you can see from the book cover below, Steve is a CORBA expert and way back in the dark ages he was a CORBA advocate. However, he’s moved into the 21st century and left that horse and buggy behind – unlike others who cling to their horse whips and ostracize those who point out the obvious.