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Microsoft hires key rival from SuSE Linux | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Microsoft has hired one of its worst enemies, the SuSE Linux salesman whose efforts led the city of Munich to adopt Linux and open-source software instead of Microsoft's products. Karl Aigner, formerly SuSE's account representative for Munich, is overseeing sales of Microsoft's data center products to midsize companies in Germany. He began his new role April 1, Microsoft said Tuesday. "I think Microsoft sees the European public sector as the vanguard of the fight against open source," said RedMonk analyst James Governor, and hiring Aigner will give the company insight into its foe's methods. Microsoft is a "learning organization, and one of the ways of learning is bringing in different ways of thinking," he added. | ||
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| #1 By 12071 (203.217.20.114) at 4/21/2004 9:22:34 AM |
| If you can't beat them, buy them. |
| #2 By 13030 (198.22.121.120) at 4/21/2004 10:31:08 AM |
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Apparently, we all have a price...
Regardless, a good salesman could sell just about anything and the relationship can be more important than the product or service (as MS has realized). |
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