MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE

ron_ivi writes "In a move reminiscent of the 1997 MSFT/Borland Lawsuits, Microsoft has hired the SUSE sales guy who won Munich for SUSE. So if you want a job in this tough job market, just be wildly successful at your current job and Microsoft will come recruit you. (Another interesting Microsoft hire is the chair of the ISO C++ standards body as their VisualC++.NET architect.) Personally I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well."

Comments

The moral of the story

[Morganth]

Don't be successful.

Re:The moral of the story

[ArsonSmith]

He's moving to an American company, that would be an imperial standard assload of cash.

I heard Linus made a counter-offer

[Anonymous Coward]

Of $0, but he opted to go with Microsoft anyway.

How long before

[john_sheu]

they hire Linus as head Longhorn coder?

Re:How long before

[Anonymous Coward]

What?! And put all the antivirus companies out of business witha secure os?

His first assignment

[EricWright]

Get Munich back on Windows!

We've got this great lead for you...

[binbag]

His boss: OK, you're on probation until you get this first sale. There's this council in Munich...

Reminded of...

[PeteDotNu]

Bill Gates: "Buy him out, boys."

Re:it's war

[AKAImBatman]

Of course, it doesn't help that your girlfriend/wife is really a secret spy for Microsoft, and the agent who offered you an alternative was really an early warning system to have you bumped off. It gets even worse when they start killing your best friend Open Source programmers! What has this world come to!?

Side note: After we saw AntiTrust, my wife kept trying to convince me that she really *wasn't* a spy for Microsoft. Seems the movie hit a little too close to home. :-)

Juxtaposition of Headlines

[tomhudson]

Funny how, just after this:

Your Rights Online: Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash

we see this:

MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE

Guess they found one taker for Microsoft cash after all :-)

Re:Integrity

[Anonymous Coward]

Seems there isn't such thing as integrity.


You do realize we're talking about sales here, right?

Ah, the good old days

[RobertB-DC]

From the C|Net article, dateline May 7, 1997:

Yocam maintains that Microsoft is luring personnel away with huge signing bonuses, some in excess of $1 million. "They have the audacity to send limos to Borland's headquarters to take Borland employees out to lunch. I mean, this has got to stop."

Ah, the good old days. Million-dollar signing bonuses. Limos for job prospects. Corvettes for hot programmers fresh out of college. Penthouse suites with the company logo in genuine Italian marble.

Why did it ever have to end?

Oh, wait, don't answer that...

Re:Ah, the good old days

[rcs1000]

Attn: Microsoft

I am an *ace* Linux programmer. I have submitted thousands of patches to the Linux kernel (I'm afraid I don't understand how CVS works, so I'm not sure exactly how many were incorporated, but I'm guessing it's pretty damn near 100%).

I am available for hire, or indeed for lunch.

If the person I have lunch with could be female and attractive, that would be a double bonus, because I could tell my friends I had a girlfriend and get them to oogle us through the window of the restaraunt.

Please send the limo and a million dollar cheque to ###***censored by CmdrTaco***###

Thanks!

Robert

Re:Makes Sense

[Dot.Com.CEO]

As you grow older you'll regretably see that, all things considered, you learn as much working for two years as you do at University. Plus, you probably pick other things up, like not writing "if I had went". :-)

Re:it's war

[pVoid]

Amen.

I would also like to say: why isn't this story headlined Saviour is now inside the MS VC.NET team! Hurray!