Intercontinental CruiseControl

I was reading an email Saturday morning from Brian Egge of ThoughtWorks, the company behind CruiseControl, the Java-based continuous integration product (OK, family of products, of which the flagship product is Java-based). Coincidentally...

ThoughtWorks is based in Sydney, and I happened to be watching Live Earth Sydney as I read Brian's email. Naturally, I Googlemapped the locations. Looks like the office is about 4K away from the stadium. I started drawing all sorts of conclusions from this meagre little bit of map detection, until I realized that Brian could well be living in Palo Alto.

We are well into the era of the officeless company. Even DDJ is as officeless as a Web 2.0 startup. That Sydney location might just be a mailstop.

Here's what Brian wrote:

Hi Mike,

I enjoyed your article about builds in the latest issues of DDJ. I thought you'd like to know that ThoughtWorks was early to the idea of a continuous build server, but late to the idea of selling an enterprisy type product. Well, we've come out with Cruise Control Enterprise to serve the customer base who want to pay for something.

For a tidy sum of money, one can get 24x7 support and more.

Cheers,

Brian

Posted by Mike Swaine at 01:30 PM  Permalink