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Harald Grumser and the trouble with a sheet of paper
He spent 29 years leading Compart, helping information travel between systems that struggled to understand one another. His next chapter brought the same practical instinct to founders, colleagues and the region around Böblingen.
OMG makes the rules that let rivals work together
Behind UML, SysML and BPMN is a consortium with an unfashionable idea: competitors should agree on the plumbing. Its latest systems modeling language shows how much work that agreement takes.
FinOps Foundation makes the cloud bill everyone's business
The cloud made spending easy. FinOps Foundation built a common language for the people left explaining the bill. Now AI is putting that language to work in new places.
MAK builds worlds where being wrong is part of the training
An aircraft can be certain of its position - and still be wrong. MAK’s simulation software turns that awkward possibility into something crews can rehearse, while helping separate training systems inhabit the same world.
Futurewei and the business of agreeing
A Huawei affiliate works on the code and conventions that let rival technologies cooperate. Its story reveals both the value of shared infrastructure and the expense of keeping it alive.
SiFive wants a bigger job inside the AI machine
The RISC-V pioneer sells the blueprints behind other companies’ chips. With $400 million in fresh funding and a new development server, it is making a bid for the data center’s CPU business.
Jeremy Powell Built a Career Making Design Software Get Out of the Way
He joined Vectorworks when product marketing was a department of one. Two decades later, his clearest idea remains disarmingly practical: designers should spend less time negotiating with software and more time designing.