Comments on: Don Ferguson Joins Microsoft. 5 things you didn’t know

By: Mark Cathcart

Mark Cathcart — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:55:05 +0000

James, since you are a fan-boy, you might enjoy this on how Don wants to change the web.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/arcjournal/bb491122.aspx

By: jgovernor

jgovernor — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:23:48 +0000

John Hess - i may be giving Don too much credit, as you say, but you dont become chief architect at SWG without some pretty serious technical chops, and some achievements under your belt. I would also argue he leaves IBM in pretty good software health.

By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Thanks Irving - your IBM was mine

James Governor’s Monkchips » Thanks Irving - your IBM was mine — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:17:20 +0000

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By: John Hess

John Hess — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:45:50 +0000

You might be giving Don a little too much credit. His “useful abstractions” were often more complex to use than the APIs they wrapped. He did have some interestings concepts in the CORBA space, but I don’t think anything was ever released as a mainstream product