____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 02 March 2008 07:39 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 01 March 2008 11:22 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Novell's PR director leaves to change the world
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Bruce Lowry, Novell's head of global public relations, will say 'Goodbye'
>>>>| to Novell this week to start with the Skoll Foundation as its
>>>>| communications director.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9882387-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
>>>>
>>>> It wasn't long ago that Novell also lost LaSala, Counsel General. Let
>>>> Microsoft have fun with Ballnux, without enough people paying patent tax.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Novell's PR has not been particularly great of late... no wonder he's
>>> jumping.
>>
>> He has been under a lot of pressure for a long time. He's a good guy and he
>> cares about open source, but myself and others like Asay gave him a hard
>> time. :-)
>
> If he really does care about open source, then moving is probably the
> best thing he could do anyway. Things will not get better for the open
> sourcerers at Novell, they will only get worse.
He even got his mother to use ODF. I'm sure he's æ good guy and he /really/
cares about open source based on what I was told. In fact, he's a friend of a
friend of mine, so I wish him luck in the Skoll Foundation.
It's just hard being a PR person at Novell nowadays, which reminds me of this
recent report:
Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu
,----[ Quote ]
| Michael Sievert, Corporate Vice President for Windows Product Marketing, is
| moving on, according to multiple sources of mine.
|
| It’s hard to make the case that Sievert, who was responsible for the
| worldwide introduction of Windows Vista, isn’t being pushed for the
| less-than-enthusiastic public perception of Microsoft’s latest version of
| Windows. Even though Microsoft has moved 100-million-plus copies of Vista,
| many consumers and businesses still consider the new release buggy, sluggish
| and incompatible with existing software and drivers.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1158
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~~ Best of wishes
Microsoft loves competition.
"We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger….If you’re going to kill
someone, there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You
just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need
to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
--Jim Allchin, Platform Group Vice President
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