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Global Software Development: Attainable Challenge or the Holy Grail?

by Piotr Fuglewicz

The telephone rang at half past three in the morning. It was Bob complaining about a problem with linking the library we had sold his Big Software Company a while ago. I closed my eyes, trying to figure out the pull-down menu of the compiler. Then I led Bob through the installation across an ocean and two continents. We succeeded. Bob could carry on his work, and I could go back to my bed. I was too sleepy to realize that my life had been entered by the practices of global software development.

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Global Software Development: Attainable Challenge or the Holy Grail? March 1999

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