Second Life CTO Quits Over "Strategic Differences"

Posted by Patrick Roche-Sowa - Friday, December 14, 2007 9:51 AM

What's going on over at Linden Labs?

Cory Ondrejka, Second Life CTO, submitted his resignation on Tuesday and will be leaving the game's parent company Linden Labs at the end of this year. The reasons given by Second Life CEO Phillip Rosedale for Ondrejka's departure range from "strategic differences" to ''the needs of our company are changing, and the role of CTO, or technical lead, has also evolved...''.

Things don't seem to be going all that well for Second Life these days. Technical problems have been plaguing the game, hackers and greifers have been ruining everyone's good time, and with the Yankee Groups study showing that Second Life is mostly hype because on average people only spend 12 minutes a month in the game, this could be the begining of the end for the user-created pervert heaven that we've all grown to know and love. Say it ain't so Linden, say it ain't so.

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Posted by HUGSaLOT - Friday, December 14, 2007 4:10 PM

Just an FYI, that 12 minutes a month is complete BS. The service averages 40 thousand users at any given time, so this 12mins a month is completely off base, and I'm surprised G4 is taking this as actual fact.

But it is true that the service is plagued with technical outages, and database problems. It's amazing to hear the CTO got fed up and left. And the line about "our needs have evolved" is just horsecrap.

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Posted by dontadow - Friday, December 14, 2007 8:19 PM

Actually the numbers make since if you have millions of people signed up and only have 40k on at any given time. Not sure how far this went in your school, but to get the average you add up the TOTAL time and divide it by the TOTAL users. With millions of millions of actual accounts and only 40k on at atime its real easyto seea number like 12 minutes per month, even if there are 10k or 20k people who play it every day. There are tons ofp eople who've signed on once and signed off.

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Posted by DaveKap - Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:27 PM

The Yankee Group study had to be retracted and rewritten because they were proven to provide false information. G4 has decided to take outdated and incorrect information and use it as a fact in both the Morgan Minute and this article you're reading here. It's unfortunate that G4 doesn't check their sources and ensure that they are a reputable source.

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