Jason Sutherland - What's the hardest part of managing Longhorn's build process?
- Posted: Jun 11, 2004 at 1:16 PM
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Do you have executives who virtually watch you while you work? Are you one of a handful of guys who are at the center of building a product that generates multi-billions of dollars in revenue? Are you one of the guys responsible for making sure that Microsoft's
most important product ships on time?
Jason Sutherland, who is part of the team responsible for building Longhorn, deals with all that and more, so we wondered what the hardest part of Jason's job was.
On the other hand, we wondered what the upside of doing such a job is. Jason answers both.
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Longhorn has been promoted as a 'bet the company' product and release. I had wondered some time ago how the release team is coping with the pressure.
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It is great to see that the guys in charge of the Longhorn release can still smile and enjoy working on one the most talked product drops in Microsoft's history
Hopefully we'll hear more from Jason soon.
- Chris
10 points to anyone who can identify all the acronyms I used above. (Ok, only 5 points if you are an MS employee.)
Shell Update Release = SUR
Internet Information Services IIS
Service Level Management = SLM
Solution Developer = SD
Visual Build Labs = VBL
SD is Source Depot, another internal source control tool that superceeded SLM. I believe SD shares some lineage with the publicly available Perforce product.
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