Former Microsoft executives start open source company
nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu
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Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at Microsoft, and
Jason Allen, a former development manager for XML Web Services, have
started a new company dedicated to helping businesses choose the
open-sourced software that best fits their needs....
Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at Microsoft, and
Jason Allen, a former development manager for XML Web Services, have
started a new company dedicated to helping businesses choose the
open-sourced software that best fits their needs.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/7/14/4655
hanum...@gmail.com
Utterly LOLarious.
nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu
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Some big Microsoft names are involved in the startup. Paul Maritz, who
served as a member of the executive committee and manager of the
overall Microsoft company from 1986 to 2000, and Pradeep Singh, who
spent nine years at Microsoft in various management positions, are some
of the major investors. So will Ohloh surf off into the sunset? Who
knows, but it will be interesting to watch.
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Roy Schestowitz
> nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu wrote:
>> Quote:
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>> Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at Microsoft, and
>> Jason Allen, a former development manager for XML Web Services, have
>> started a new company dedicated to helping businesses choose the
>> open-sourced software that best fits their needs....
>> --------------
>> End quote
>> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/7/14/4655
>
> Utterly LOLarious.
FWIW, there is an interesting perspective about it at:
DFS
> nes...@wigner.berkeley.edu wrote:
>> Quote:
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>> Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at Microsoft,
>> and Jason Allen, a former development manager for XML Web Services,
>> have started a new company dedicated to helping businesses choose the
>> open-sourced software that best fits their needs....
>> End quote
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/7/14/4655
>
> Utterly LOLarious.
Is it as funny as this?
Roy Schestowitz
Old news. He ditched them a short time after that.
High Plains Thumper
> DFS on Saturday:
>> hanumizzle wrote:
>>> nessuno wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quote:
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>>>> Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at
>>>> Microsoft, and Jason Allen, a former development manager
>>>> for XML Web Services, have started a new company
>>>> dedicated to helping businesses choose the open-sourced
>>>> software that best fits their needs.... --------------
>>>> End quote
>>>>
>>>> http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/7/14/4
>>>> 655
>>>
>>> Utterly LOLarious.
>>
>> Is it as funny as this?
>>
>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1827841,00.asp
>
> Old news. He ditched them a short time after that.
He left Microsoft in January this year. He is now Chief
Technology Officer at ABC Coding Solutions in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
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HPT
Tim Smith
> FWIW, there is an interesting perspective about it at:
>
> http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3268188983.html
Quote from that article:
Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder, established the Experience Music
Project museum in Seattle with its focus on the guitar god. Charles
Simonyi, a billionaire software developer who can take much of the
credit for Word and Excel, is working towards a 2007 trip to the space
station. And, perhaps the most unlikely activity of them all for an
ex-Micosoftie, Scott Collison, former director of platform strategy at
Microsoft, is the CEO of Ohloh, an open-source startup out of Bellevue
Wash.
I think the author is a bit out of touch with the industry, if he thinks
this is perhaps the most unlikely of all. When you get out of the small
world of advocacy groups, and look around in the larger, real-life world
of the computing industry, people exit Microsoft all the time, to pursue
pretty much the same things as people leaving other companies leave for.
And people leave other companies from all over the industry to take jobs
at Microsoft, too.
So, someone leaving Microsoft to work with open source is no more odd or
unlikely as someone leaving IBM or Sun to do the same thing.
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--Tim Smith
