The school’s prime sponsor is IBM, which, like the other sponsors, expects to hire some grads. IBM wants to counter Microsoft’s market dominance and educate more grads in IBM-written applications for Linux and other open-source systems.
“I’m jazzed about the Northface program,” said IBM research fellow Grady Booch, a member of the school’s advisory board. “Northface is producing a far better match for the skill sets IBM needs.”
