New Linden Lab VP with an old message

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Linden Lab's Frank Ambrose has weighed in with his first public statement. Unless you've been following the Second Life news here at Massively, you probably had no idea who Ambrose is, or that he'd been hired by the Lab as Senior VP of Global Technology.

Ambrose delivers the basic message that we hear in virtually every infrastructure-related announcement for the last several years: Scalability and stability. Unfortunately, after three years, users indicate that they're finding the promises wearing a little thin.

That is not to say that there haven't been some improvements in these areas. On Sunday, 14 September Second Life user-concurrency rose to 69,754 (and notably without an associated infrastructure collapse). That's an overall increase of 17,859 in one year. If that trend continues, Second Life will have eclipsed the popularity of Everquest at its height, in a little more than a year.

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