Sunday, October 5, 2008

Developers are not fungible commodities

I had a long visit from Richard Rabins of Alpha Software on Wednesday. It was supposed to be a short software demo and a brief lunch, but time got away from both of us.

I'll write about the demo another time. One of the topics we touched on in a wide-ranging conversation hit a nerve. As Richard's story goes, when Alpha sold the AlphaWorks package to Lotus, at the last minute Lotus mentioned that they wanted one of the key AlphaWorks developers to work for Lotus.

"I let them know that they could have mentioned that a bit earlier. The answer was nevertheless a resounding NO! Software developers are not fungible commodities to be bought and sold. You can't grow or train great developers: they just happen. We eventually compromised, and he went on loan to Lotus for six months."

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