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Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience.Sun Microsystems Inc. also is joining the $7.5 million project at the University of California, Berkeley.
Google, Microsoft & Sun Microsystems to Fund New Internet Lab [hosted.ap.org]
Staffed initially by six UC Berkeley faculty members and 10 computer science graduates, the lab plans to develop an array of Web-based software services that will be given away to anyone who wants it.
Curious that the entire staff is only from UC Berkeley. Wonder why no outsiders were hired?
Do you think they'd take my fifty quid for a seat on the board?
Curious that the entire staff is only from UC Berkeley. Wonder why no outsiders were hired?
Because $7.5M won't cover many real world salaries and facilities, so short of oursourcing it to a small country where you could just buy a village of workers outright for that price, students will work on grad projects for some bucks and a grade.
Don't expect world class QA'd software unless Google or MS plans on testing the results themselves and performing code reviews.
Because $7.5M won't cover many real world salaries and facilities
Yes, exactly! I wonder how many of their staff stick around if they are actually successful at inventing something useful enough to make some real money?
