WANdisco scores $1m self-driving car deal under back-from-the-dead CEO

Replication vendor WANDisco has won a million-dollar deal with a car manufacturer, vindicating CEO Dave Richard’s reinstatement. Earlier this year Richards was ousted as CEO in a coup orchestrated by ex-WANdisco chairman Paul Walker. Walker was then ousted himself seven days later, in a fightback by leading investors and Dave …

[J. R. Hartley]

Shitting crikey

[zebm]

A win for Sheffield

[Ian Michael Gumby]

@zebm No win...

Its a million dollar contract and its not really much of anything.

I can guess who's IBM's customer.

I can also tell you that competitors who have been dealing with this problem already have other solutions in place for a couple of years now. (Albeit on prototype cars that I know of, but could also be part of the 2G/3G data service of the connected cars.)