ellementK: (ĕll'ǝ-mǝnt-kā)
noun - A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin About Eleanor Kruszewski: I'm known variously as Eleanor or Elle. My last name is like that coach from Duke - kru-shef-ski. Based in Menlo Park, CA, I work for Yahoo! in their Developer Network. The easiest description of what I do is the MBA shin kicker, handling community, marketing, commercial programs and sundry backend stuff. Disclaimer: I've done big corps, midcorps, and startups, so I overstate and oversimplify as much as anyone else. These opinions are my own, not my employer's. |
« Novell’s leadership carries open source pedigree | Main | Update on IBM Workplace » Microsoft takes stake in ADFS-enabling startupTonight I was at a Churchill Club event where I met Glenn Kesselman, director of channel and partner sales for Vintela, a Utah based company that works to bridge the conflicting identity management services of *nix and Microsoft. Glenn said they had big news coming out on the wires, and it turned out to be that Microsoft took a minority stake, with a cash infusion of “under $10m”. For full details, Vintela: Microsoft’s Secret Unix/Linux Weapon?. This investment continues a positive relationship of co-development and joint sales/marketing efforts. Tools like these help ease the pain of integration now, but I do wonder about Vintela’s long term strategy in the face of the Sun-Microsoft alliance - which is fueled by this exact issue. If big customers brought Sun and Microsoft to the bargaining table and extracted committments to deliver interoperability, it throws the long term viablity of Vintela’s product line in question. I can’t help but wonder if they would have been better off in an outright purchase. |
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