Does Distributed Development Work?

If it does—as Borland VP Chris Barbin believes—it may just change the world.

Over the past 12 months, I’ve written about the rise of network intelligence and the implications of that for enterprises and hardware vendors. Continuing in that vein, I’ve interviewed Borland senior vice president Chris Barbin for this week’s column in an attempt to find out how increased processing power on the network is affecting software development. As it turns out, the impacts have been profound—and not just in India and China. "Distributed development," as Mr. Barbin calls it, has the potential to revitalize rural North America and beyond, changing the lives of knowledge workers the world over. Read on to find out precisely how.

Do you believe we’re entering the era of the "flat enterprise," where headquarter complexes will ultimately be replaced by webs of smaller branch offices? Or do you think the growth in branch offices is merely supplementing that in headquarters?

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