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MS Hires The Salesman Who Won Munich For SUSE

Posted by timothy on from the incentive-plan dept.

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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  1. it's war by jacquesm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, it's war, and microsoft is not above recruiting the enemy's best lieutenants.

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    1. Re:it's war by DaHat · · Score: 5, Insightful

      We call that corporate raiding when not referring to 'war' and it is a quite old and hated practice (at least when your offices are raided). Say all the ill you want about MS for doing this, but they are doing what any company would do, hiring the best people they can to do the job!

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    2. Re:it's war by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 5, Insightful

      An AC said it best. He is a sales man afterall.
      honest and displays a fair comparison between products

      When does any sales person do the above. He is out to make his companies product look better than any other, thats what SuSE paid him to do and thats what Microsoft will pay him to do. I love SuSE, it's been the only distro I use for years but even I can;t say anything bad about this or put this guy up for any honesty award.

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    3. Re:it's war by kiwimate · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, it's war, and microsoft is not above recruiting the enemy's best lieutenants.

      Oh grow up. You could just as easily spin this as Linux's best evangelists are mercenaries with no integrity; they can be bought by the enemy.

      It's business. RTFA and don't skip the bits about Juniper recruiting from Cisco, EMC recruiting from HP, etc. Guess what -- for all the childish railing against MS, they actually can't force someone to work for them. Can MS throw money at someone? Sure. Can a target of their recruitment strategy say no? Of course.

      And, by the way, I'm guessing MS probably didn't ring him up and offer him a job right away. Usually you start by feeling out if someone is interested before you start talking dollars. You can be aggressive in your negotiations, but he could always have just said no right at the beginning. Right? So why isn't this story headlined Traitor defects to the enemy MS camp?

  2. so? by kperrier · · Score: 5, Insightful

    why is this news? He quit SuSE in 2003 and he got a new job.