The Grill: Software guru Grady Booch is hot on Linux, Second Life and busting bureaucracy

By Heather Havenstein

October 29, 2007 12:00 PM ET

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Maybe those companies [that have left Second Life] got in there for the wrong reasons. Why do I want to go to Store X in a virtual world?

IBM has 50 or so islands that we own [in Second Life]. Weve derived business value by using it internally. I can look at the lectures I have done and say, I have saved IBM money.

If you were back in the U.S. Air Force Academy [where Booch earned his bachelors degree in 1977] today, what would you choose to study? I would want to be an astronaut. The economics of that business are so different now. It used to be that NASA and the government had the stronghold on space travel. The generation after us theyre probably going to go to space. Good for them.

What technology development has surprised you the most in the past decade? I am not easily surprised. I will honestly say I am not sure I have been surprised.

I read a heap of history. I am so attuned to the social and historical things that have gone on that I see virtually everything that has happened as evolutionary rather than revolutionary.

I havent seen any revolutions. Heck, I had my first e-mail address in 1979. There was a printed document with everyones e-mail address [in the world].

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