i Witness Account: The Chief Architect’s View
April 15, 2013 Dan Burger
Steve Will, the chief architect for the IBM i platform, is a hunter and gatherer of problems and solutions. He oversees the direction of the operating system, does the analysis, takes into account the integration, and supervises the implementation. Along with his team of big thinkers, Will uses customer resources as well as input from ISVs and business partners in the sales channel. A new release of the operating system is due in 2014, and Will touched on that in addition to talking about what has already been accomplished. As Power Systems general manager Colin Parris noted in the opening |