Bender, who is in charge of software, says that operating in such an open manner has subjected his project to withering criticism because so many people were invited to see early versions nowhere near completion.
"We wanted a unique architecture we could sell into the console, arcade and PC markets and accumulate a huge number of software titles, " says Hirokazu Hashimoto, president of NEC Electronics in Santa Clara, California, who's in charge of the PowerVR.
"Whichever company solves this problem will be the Cisco of software, " says Siebel.
"This is just the first generation of filmmakers embracing computers and software, " says Ian Calderon , director of digital initiatives at the Sundance Institute .
John Sheehan, the 31-year-old co-founder of a San Francisco software startup, says he will use Google Shopping Express for 10% to 20% of the purchases he would otherwise make through Amazon, which only offers two-day shipping in the city.
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"This took a lot of software development and a lot of business development, " says Chief Executive Doug Renert , who formerly headed application sales at Oracle.
"This took a lot of software development and a lot of business development, " says Chief Executive Doug Renert , who formerly headed application sales at Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ).
That makes the iOS-hacking app the fastest-adopted jailbreak software of all time, Freeman says.
Since Temmingh released the first commercial version of Maltego this past summer, even several national intelligence agencies have made use of the software, he says.
"An Internet company has to build its brand up from scratch, in terms of software, order fulfillment and brand image, " Netessine says of Amazon's dominance.
"It's part of a growing trend to integrate hardware, software and services, " says Ross Rubin, director of consumer technology industry analysis for the NPD Group.
Jay Freeman, the administrator of the app store for jailbroken Apple devices known as Cydia, says his software market received that number of visits from jailbroken iPads in just the last month, a growing number driven in part by the release of a new tool known as Evasion that removes download restrictions on the latest versions of the iPhone and iPad.
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But the Army's Jonathan Broskey stands by his claims of Apple's security: He says the high number of patches to Apple software is a good sign--evidence of the large community of developers actively working to tighten Unix programs and eliminate bugs.
For developers, the challenge is teaching computers to think like people, improving the artificial-intelligence aspect of software so that it replicates the human elements of job search and recruitment, says Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass International Inc.
But HP is ahead in some areas, such as automated tools to test the quality of the customer's software, says IDC analyst Stephen Hendrick.
"Once the cameras are installed and operational, once they're networked to central computers, then it's a simple matter of upgrading the software, " he says.
One of the reasons for its success in China could be down to its ability to be controlled says vice president of software systems at IDC, Dan Kusnetzky.
"The good thing is that nothing went really seriously wrong--apart, of course, from the economy at large, " says John Bates, general manager of Progress Software, which sells trading risk control systems.
But many employees feel it is easier to grow in their careers without layers of management, says Chris Wanstrath, the CEO of San Francisco collaboration-software company GitHub, who insists his title is nominal.
And top-down implementations of software can often be ignored, Borg says.
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The SIIA white paper says software sellers manipulate the rules of Internet auction sites to obtain e-mail addresses of bidders on software, creating a direct-marketing channel.
"As long as the need for software is high and the complexity of software projects increases, we'll continue to grow, " he says.
German software company SAP says it hopes to recruit hundreds of people with autism, saying they have a unique talent for information technology.
Jonathan Downey, founder of Y Combinator-backed Airware, says he had the rough idea for the drone software company before graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.
"We have no idea how dependent we are on buggy software, " says Leon Kappelman, a professor of information systems at the University of North Texas in Denton.
The problem is that, so far, Microsoft does not have much to show for its plans, says Brent Thill, director of software research at Citi Investment Research.
Trower, who's working on Microsoft's own software platform for robotic systems, says this kind of PC bot would serve as a multiapplication communication and work device, but it would have microphones and touch-screens for interacting with humans and the same adaptable and moving form factor as a small robot.
Dan Scheinman of Cisco, the world's largest maker of networking equipment, says that Shanghai, too, has achieved a critical mass in the numbers of software engineers available.
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Alan Todd , CEO of Knowledge Planet, says the news out of MIT can only increase demand for the e-learning software his company sells to businesses, which use it to get content from top universities.
Aziz, who helped write AlgoRisk 2.3, says the limitations of risk-management software are known.
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