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Belluzo post-SGI joining Microsoft
Well, it apparents that on the heels of yesterday's announcement about resigning as CEO of SGI, Belluzzo will be reportedly joining Microsoft's interactive operations units.
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Not much loyalty in this computer malarkey is there?
Chris Wareham
so, now we see why he's been driving sgi into the ground...heh
Or should that be 'assimilated'? All these anti-microsoft metaphors can be hard to keep track of.
As for 'loyalty'; much as I dislike microsoft, I think I'll have to leap to the poor chap's defense. I wouldn't work for Microsoft (again), neither would a bunch a people on the list, but that doesn't mean everyone feels the same way. Even if he worked for SGI, we can't assume he feels the level of antipathy some of us do.
Most ms employees are perfectly decent people (although when I was there, none of them knew how to use windows).
So what are the chances that he'll steer microsoft into the gutter and tell them to start using linux instead of NT? ;)
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Did he retuire because he didn't liek the way that SGI is going non-M$?
I think so.
I've always wondered why MS can't seem to make a decent, stable product. Your comment:
I guess that might explain it, eh? If they can't even use their own product...
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First thought "Traitor, begone!" :-)
Second thought: "Microsoft takes care of its own" - Rick B supported the NT strategy in support of MS, it didn't work, Microsoft gave him a position.
Third thought: What kind of position is this? Would you want to be put in charge of MSN et al? It may be an important position from Bill's point of view, and it probably pays pretty well, but frankly I don't think anyone human could fulfill Bill's expectations for the unit.
Maybe Rick just got what he deserved.
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He is smart. He knows were the money is. He also knows were the future is as well.
M$ has utterly trashed every web venture it's gotten itself into. Does anyone here like the hotmail redesign? No one I know likes it. What about sidewalk.com? That used to be a good resource, until M$ took it over and "improved" (read: bloated, commercialized every square inch of, and generally made wreckage of) it.
This move makes me hope that Belluzo had a plaque for his desk that says "Captain of Sinking Ships." Watch for M$ to lose even more money on their "interactive services division" and pin it on this shlub in the very near future.
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Perhaps he was contacted by MS to help them deal with the Linux-threat and they need someone to help them out with multimedia anyways. He accepts because he will probably receive a lot of stockoptions and better get them now before the MS shareprice sinks, ie. a path to a good life with a good pension. This is of course pure speculation :-)
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That's the microsoft design ethos. A bastard variant of democracy - you'll get what the pig ignorant masses want. So quit whining, and welcome to the neo-liberal hell of the future.
Make me glad I'm an elitist bastard.
Chris Wareham
I wonder if Microsoft offered Belluzo immunity from rabid SGI buyers, out for blood after the NT fiasco.
Alternatively, it's just possible that Bellizo belives in Microsoft and it's software, and rebelled against the introduction of Linux and the abandoning of NT. Executives of companies have quit in the belief that 20th century technology was supplied by aliens, so it's not an outrageous possibility, as bizare as it might seem.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
And why do you not step forward and reveal yourself in your very asshole way of responding?
Why do you think that dealing with the interactive unit is all he will be doing when he apparently has so much more to bring to a technologically weak company?
I wish him as much luck as he had with SGI!
A few months ago, some SGI salesman offered us some of their NT stations. I naively asked if they ran under Linux. The guy was slightly upset and told me that since they sale their NT boxes, everyone is asking about Linux. They cannot put anything else than NT since they have a contract with M$ for this little boxes.
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
In light of his second career decision -- the one to go to work for the borg -- I'm don't believe he is the right person to head SGI either!
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I do wonder how exactly he meant the statement that he was going to work for a company that doesn't compete with SGI.
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I find it interesting and humorous to read the numerous posts and replies on slashdot. Among the many consistent themes are the conspiracies and conspirators that progagate throughout the tech industry. This theme is running on all cylinders with this story, the spectrum covers Belluzzo running SGI in the ground on purpose to a multifaceted attack on Linux by MS.
Before going further, let's agree on one thing: Belluzzo resigned from SGI for a presumably better position elsewhere in the industry... MS according to many reports.
Please take a second to humor me and consider the recent resignation of SGI's Belluzzo from your own career perspective.
1) let's say that you are employed by a company who is struggling to survive, much less take a leadership position, in a stale industry with low margins and fierce competition.
2) you are approached by the leading company in a high profile, media sexy, and wealthy industry.
3) further, you are approached to be the head of a division (essentially a company unto itself) that is struggling to overcome identity and marketing issues, but has the full commitment and resources of its wealthy parent company. In other words, this is a challenge but is doable.
4) you are enticed with cash and stock wealth of much higher certainty than your current position.
What would you do? It's not about loyalty or conspiracy, it's about a fundamental tenet of market economies... freedom to exercise choice
A lot of companies, as a condition of being hired, prevent you from going to work for a direct competitor within a certain time frame after leaving. That's probably why he made that statement.
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
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I was wondering what was up with SGI making NT based systems. What a crack headed idea that was. Looks like he's been MS's bitch since day one.
~Kevin
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This guy is a manager. He probably spends his time trying to figure out how to next "reinvent his company", or reading "Zen and the art of mind fucking the customer" or some such nonsense. These people have no morals or virtues. They don't mean anything. Managers spend their lives in the perpetual illusion that they matter. Who cares.
If Bill Joy left Sun for MS THAT would be disturbing.
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as an unix sysadmin with experience with irix, i take severe issue with your assertion that irix is non standard unix. it is KNOWN for being very vanilla unix. irix needs to be defended against baseless accusations, it has been one of finest variants of unix that i have been involved with. it is such a good thing that sgi is contributing amazing technology (xfs, and graphics optimizations) from their irix platform to the linux community. sgi's accomplishments are seen not just in the hardware world, but in the software side as well as seen in irix.
YAACWHBBBM$ (yet another AC who has been brainwashed by M$)
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WOW, so Microsoft can take someone else's designs and (feebly)attempt to improve on them. Lets take a closer look shall we, sports fans?
Expedia: Well, I'll be damned if it isnt Travelocity.com with a powered by M$ sticker on it.
MSNBC: wait a minute, you mean that M$ does the news too? I seriously doubt that they would ever put a spin on anything on that channel. It's called mindshare...any place that they can put their name into they will. Last I checked M$ is a bunch of programmers and marketing people, they are not reporters. They bought a station and a website so that people would recognize the M$ name.
Slate: The stuff that they forgot to put into the MSNBC channel
Carpoint: Wow, another original M$ idea, selling cars on the internet. A search on Altavista for "car dealers" only returns 28,416 returns. Another M$ original production.
Who cares about Sidesquawk and all the other M$ crap that they have crea^H^H^Hcopied. The point of the article in this is that M$'s brainwashed little boy that they planted inside of SGI failed in his conquest to assimilate them. So now M$ is taking him back for reprogramming and is probably going to send him out again in a couple of months once the brainwashing is complete.
If you are going to post about proM$ stuff, check you references, M$ is NOT #1 in those websites. If you are going to get something wrong, at least get it right.
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This sort of thing has cropped up before. And it has always been due to human error.
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This sort of thing has cropped up before. And it has always been due to human error.
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Maybe Micorsoft will drop NT too?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
it seems that the preoccupation with money rests solely in your post. Considering that you seem to have missed the other points in my original post, let me restate them:
- shift from hardware to the Internet sector
- move from a market laggard to a market leader
- take on a division that has not met expectations, but has the full resources of a capable parent company
There is much more to the game than money, like winning.
I have the balls to put my name to my postings... I didn't see yours...
Hmmm ... this may be a bit cheeky coming from a computer contractor like myself, but I have to disagree.
Some of the smartest people in the computer world are still working on the same projects or for the same companies many years down the line. From the early Unix era look at Kernighan, Ritchie, etc. Then there are people like Knuth, James Clark and Larry Wall. All hacking away at their personal masterpieces.
As for the smart IT people you seem to be referring to, they are most likely materialistic contractors working on small scale, repetitive projects or on bug fixes to old systems.
Chris Wareham