[ Changed 12th May 1998 ]
In the world of commercial product development, even in a hi-tech environment, there are many conflicting factors that go to make up the success or otherwise of a product - technical, commercial, political, and just plain luck (good or bad).
Balancing these factors requires the patience of Job, the discretion of Caesar's wife, the judgement of Solomon (not Alan), the technical knowledge of Turing (Alan), the deviousness of the Borgias, the ruthlessness of Genghis Khan, the showmanship of PT Barnum, and the financial acumen of J Paul Getty - none of which I have...
So how DO you take a security product to market these days?
This talk aims to cover many of the factors, technical and otherwise, encountered so far in the development of the Latches for Windows product, and the ways we have managed to hang on to the tiger's tail...