After so many years of tales about the modern software factory, mike has sold out our lives for a handful of dollars
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CA is a publicly traded company; its purpose is to create money for shareholders and nothing more. Gregoire was hired with a primary goal of increasing share prices, which he has done by making CA attractive to a buyer. He had no obligation to make CA a more visionary or progressive or independent company. He did his job. If you want to whinge about what happened then start an anti-capitalism blog, don't blame CA or Gregoire.
Yeah, the current board looked at Mike, said, well, guess that innovate sh*t didn't happen, CA couldn't buy a product that made serious $$$. So, let's monetize this commodity. You're a commodity, folks.
They had to change the name because the CEO of Computer Associates went to jail.
Technically for him it's more than a handful. $50 million goes a long way.
CA needed a Steve Jobs and they brought in a Gil Amelio. I think Otto would have been a better CEO. At least he understood the technology. Mike personified the MBA CEO. No originality, no risk taking. Purely manage by the numbers and slavery to quarterly reports.
CA made a mistake changing its name to CA (searching gets you California). So CA has to periodically invent these phrases that make customers think CA isn’t just speaking from its own a-- , plus they can google search a term other than CA. I always hated modern software factory. When I think of factory I think of some old dusty child labor facility.
It was all b---s---. He didn’t believe or understand any of it. Look at his education and career - he was a talking head. He used mainframe profits to pay marketers and consultants to create a brand that only appeared to fool employees and the board. Did any of those CNN commercials lead to a single sale - what tech exec would ever watch that and make a purchase based on that silliness. The app economy - WTF?
Imagine what a real tech executive could have done with our IP plus an annual investable profit of 1 billion.