Life Beyond Microsoft: Juha Christensen and Tod Nielsen Turn Up in the Linux Camp @ SYMBIAN DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

Life Beyond Microsoft: Juha Christensen and Tod Nielsen Turn Up in the Linux Camp

In a major coup for Linux, Palo Alto, CA-based Trolltech Software 'the world's biggest producer of Linux software for mobile devices' just hired two execs closely associated with Linux's nemesis, Microsoft. Trolltech is readying itself for an IPO.

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Anonymous commented on the 12 Oct 2005

As someone who used to work at BEA (I left shortly after Nielsen joined), I realized that hiring him (or acquiring CrossGain) was a poor move businesswise.

Neilsen and his collagues successfully took a company that was doing rather well into a Microsoft-wannabe and with his help, caused a mass exodus of extremely talented people all in the name of "ease of use."

While "ease of use" may be a great thing to strive for, BEA was neither ready, willing or able to deliver on this promise and now it is paying the price.

While the stock seems to be slowly edging up again, BEA is at a crossroads and chances are it won't survive another blow -- in fact, the fact that Ellison even wants them is kind of funny because he already has at least one app server available to him -- so it may be more a case of a billionaire thumping his chest and attempting to humiliate Chuang more than anything.

BEA is yesterday's news anyways - I place bets on jBoss and other open source environments nowadays... They had their chance to shine and they blew it... I am unclear if Trolltech will be a good place for Nielsen, but one thing's for sure, it can't be much worse than BEA was.

hasaclue commented on the 7 Sep 2005

there is a huge difference between "joining the board as a non-executive director" and "jumping ship" to join TrollTech. what do you think NON-EXECUTIVE means?

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