● 02.02.09
●● Openbravo Should Avoid VMware’s Mistakes
Posted in Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Virtualisation at 3:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Human Resources 101
Microsoft is approaching a Spanish Free software company (again). This time it’s Openbravo where Microsoft employees are being put, potentially to influence decisions in favour of Microsoft technologies, which is always the unfortunate side effect.
The Var Guy writes about this as though it’s a positive thing (probably not for GNU/Linux):
Two Microsoft Business Solutions veterans have joined Openbravo, a fast-growing provider of open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) and point of sale (POS) software. The moves signal growing momentum for business-centric open source applications. The news also highlights Openbravo’s continued investments in its IT channel partners.
A company which we already see being hijacked by Microsoft from the inside is VMware. We wrote about this before and now comes a more convincing article from Forbes Magazine. Watch the headline: “Bringing Microsoft To VMware”
Last summer, Paul Maritz was only hours into his new job as chief executive of VMware when he called Tod Nielsen, his former Microsoft colleague.Nielsen, formerly Maritz’s right-hand man at Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT – news – people ) and chief executive of Borland Software (nasdaq: BORL – news – people ), talked with Maritz about Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory rules. Article Controls“Paul was essentially the No. 3 person at Microsoft, in charge of all system software,” Nielsen says. “I was responsible for all the interactions with the developer community, for marketing and launching and evangelizing.”
How foolishly they let go. EMC is partly to blame, but being Microsoft’s partner of the year for 2008, it may feel the need to 'give' VMware to Microsoft. That’s just corporate diplomacy. █
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