Vice president of technology and co-founder, LogicLibrary Back in 2000, when software reuse was widely dismissed as a nice but impractical idea, Brent Carlson had the vision to co-found a company devoted to the concept. LogicLibrary and its product Logidex help enterprises identify and understand the software development assets they already have. This means locating and making sense of thousands of applications, components, database tables, design patterns, application frameworks, and other dispersed application-development building blocks so that the right ones can be leveraged effectively. Logidex also provides tools for governing the production and consumption of those assets and delivering them to the developer inside an integrated development. “There are a lot of challenges to getting governance right,” Carlson says. “You can’t define one model and expect every enterprise to adapt. Every organization has different rules and good reasons for those rules.”Back to 2005 CTO 25 Award winners Software Development