Oracle OpenWorld Keynotes

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Quinton Wall's Blog | November 13, 2007  10:55 AM | Comments (0)

I had the pleasure of listening to Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel at this mornings keynote presentation. Paul spoke about two topics that, for anyone that reads my regular rants on dev2dev, are of particular interest; architecture and most importantly design.

Paul spoke about the role of the architect and what it really means. I am certainly one of those people that think the term, in particular when related to IT, has been so over used and polluted. Using, one of my favorite figures in design as an example of a true architect, Frank Lloyd Wright Otellini quoted Wright as saying: "The architect must be a prophet.. a prophet in the true sense of the term...if he cant see at least ten years ahead dont call him an architect" to demonstrate how Intel approaches innovation and design. Within Intel, in order to keep pace with Moore's Law they need to come up with an evolutionary design every 4 years. Without these true architects this would not be possible.

What a great quote and a great presentation. With my zen level charged up again I am ready to face the 43,000 other attendees for Day 2

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