I really dont get or cannot fathom the thought that software is written in a "lab".
Atleast that term maybe hesitantly applicable for companies for Google, IRL etc. where they are not much worrried abt "outcome of a work with strict deadlines"
Otherwise the word "lab" SHOULD have a strong association with an academic institution.
But typically services industires like Infy/Accenture write software for dail and commercial use.Such a software is not a software written in a " R&D lab".It is written in an office. It is a pity that the business-men still sell the idea like we have worldclass software labs in our facility.
Look, what I mean is, if you are writing a software for a PARAM super-computer, or a CRAY machine or maybe some hardware "device" that is not exactly as "household" commodity as a computer, then the word "software lab" is fine, because, the device itself is not common-place. But a services company like Accenture opening a "Lab" (to create Desktop/Server/Web applications)....ha! it doesnt make sense.
Do people who work in offices / banks call the place they work as a "lab" ?
They are making the word "lab" very hackneyed and rather abusing that word.....software is no longer some hifi thing.
So articles like Accenture to open a lab in Bangalore sounds like a joke.
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Just like how we never did much "work" in our college labs, maybe, the people here also are pretty jobless. So, in that sense, the word lab is quite apt. :P
oh yes!
I forgot that we had a "Lab" in engineering....
hahaha...sounds pretty apt
I had a Lab in my college but sometimes i used to visit the Lab because i liked to see the students from science stream cutting legs of the frog or the lizard.
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