Research in production
I spent all day at an innovation offsite, which is like a mini-conference for VMware employees. Lots of fascinating and exciting ideas were presented. At one point, after a presentation about something that promises to create enormous cost savings in the data centre, our head of IT came up to the question mic and asked the presenter when he could have it. The answer, which made me laugh, was "oh, you can have it right now. Just download the source code from my web page!"
