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."

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C++ chair i think is old news

[kzeddy]

If its Herb Sutter you are talking about, he's been with microsoft for awhile now. He's posted a few articles on msdn about C++ on things like conformance and feature improvements to VS.net

Re:Good job offers

[mav[LAG]]

Probably none.

Microsoft did try to hire Alan Cox though.

Re:Is Linux doing well in Munich?

[Mikkeles]

Wired has a more detailed story.

You can also read Client study for the state capital Munich, Executive summary of the final report which outlines the options and strategy for the upgrade.

Re:Microsoft shill revealed

[pjkundert]

I just attended a 2-day C++ seminar hosted by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter (at SD Expo, in Santa Clara). Herb gave a presentation of (some of) the .NET extensions to C++. Bjarne was present, and was very forthright about what he thought might have potential as part of the C++ Standard, and what was ... silly.

Bjarne (and the rest of the C++ Standards Committee) seem to be pretty bright boys, and Herb is no patsy. I came away from the session with a lot of confidence that the C++ Standards Committee won't turn into a pack of Microsoft zombies, and ruin the language.

The .NET GC-specific extensions (the ^ and % operators, which are the GC-safe version of the * and & operators, for example) seem pretty silly (to me), and didn't seem to impress Bjarne too much, either. He seemed to indicate that it was unlikely that they would form part of the language. There are much more interesting directions that he would like to take the language...