On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Daniel Mons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we have names and/or job descriptions of the Microsoft employees in > question? > > The wiki says: > "There’s a strong chance that we can have some fairly senior Microsoft > Australia representatives at a SLUG meeting (likely January 2008). One > shall be a business person, the others are engineers." > > Given the wide variety of markets Microsoft dabbles in, this means very > little. Even if we don't know the names of the individuals attending, > do we at least have their respective job titles and/or areas of > speciality?
I have requested that information, and hopefully I'll have it on Monday. The 'business person' is Sarah Bond, whom I am told is in charge of their OOXML efforts in Australia, amongst other things. > I personally have strong interests in virtualisation and both high > availability and high performance clustering. There's a number of > technical and political questions I'd like to ask concerning these > specific areas, but if they are outside of the expertise of the speakers > I'd rather let someone else's more relevant questions take up air time. Interoperability and the Novell deal (of which virtualisation was a major part) is one of the reasons they have given for visiting SLUG. -- "It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO [total cost of ownership], our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties" - Microsoft C++ General Manager Aaron Contorer, 1997
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