Re: Danny Thorpe goes back to Microsoft
- From: "Danny Thorpe" <danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 May 2008 11:35:34 -0700
Cody Skidmore wrote:
Bob S wrote:
All Your Programmer Are Belong to Us
I was a little surprised to find out there were so many Borland
expatriates working at MS. I suppose Borland had their chance to
retain those folks and blew it.
A lot of talented people have contributed to Borland products over the
last 25 years. Microsoft is a very large company (80,000+ people
worldwide), so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that a portion
of the talented people who were at Borland have also been at Microsoft.
Sure, there was a spat of predatory recruiting going on in the mid
90's, but Microsoft doesn't need to do that anymore. Borland's own
problems took care of that.
It is interesting to see how Borland alumni tend to recongregate in
other companies. Netscape had a lot of Borlanders; Google has quite a
few now; Yahoo has several; VMWare also; Zone Alarm was basically
founded by Borlanders; MySQL has several; and at least one startup in
Palo Alto is making a point of hunting down engineers from Borland's
golden age. Everybody wants their own "dream team", and many look to
past successes to find them.
In the late 90's, we on the Delphi team would joke that there were more
former Borlanders at Microsoft than there were Borlanders at Borland!
(Reverse takeover, yeah!)
-Danny
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