The Bay Bridge Project
The Bay Bridge Project, or BBP, is a group of seasoned business computing professionals, working to find a way to evolve software at a comparable pace to hardware.
In 1965 Dr. Gordon E. Moore first observed the "doubling of transistor density on a manufactured die every year." The press promptly dubbed this observation "Moore's Law" -- which has become a shorthand term to describe the meteoric advances in the capacity of the silicon chip, the heart of today's computers.
But for software -- the other side of the computer equation -- history has been quite different.
Some research takes years. Ask people who work on cancer therapy, or the human genome. In the end, only a few long-term research projects achieve breakthrough. "There were times when I thought we would never get there, and then others when I thought we were just around the corner'' said Jesse Tayler, a software engineer who has been doing research for the Bay Bridge Project since before 1992.
Today, BBP colleagues want a way to put business on the web, in a complete and usable way. Not only that, but it really has to be a software equivalent of "organic", and capable of growing over time, without collapsing from its own complexity. In fact, in order to keep up with "Moore's Law", the results would have to be extraordinary indeed.
Now, from the early days of Object Oriented Tecnology adoption, the advent of the World Wide Web, and the culmination of years of research combined with innovative methods, the first comercial release of a BBP technology based solution is here. "Things have just been falling into place this year...we feel like a bio-tech startup whose star drug is finally making it through clinical trials" said Tayler, "so this is really a time for us to celebrate!''. The first product is now in its first release, and a demonstration is available to the public.
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