[Ipg-smz] Microsoft and Novartis team up to create new drugs

[Kishore Jethanandani]

Yes, that is right. And the web technologies it is using integrate with
others. The old culture is gone

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On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 11:44 AM Ron Miller via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> Anyone who thinks that Microsoft hasn't evolved under Satya Nadella simply
> isn't paying attention. Nadella had this to say at Dreamforce in 2015:
>
>  “It is incumbent upon us, especially those of us who are platform vendors
> to partner broadly to solve real pain points our customers have."
>
> (I have returned to this quote many times because I considered it so
> profound.)
>
> In the 1990s, the technology market was about controlling the whole stack.
> Nadella recognizes that while he would like to control the stack, and is
> capable of doing it, that most companies don't want to deal with a single
> vendor. He also recognizes that in order to work in a cloud-first world,
> you need to play nicely with others. The 1990s approach simply wouldn't
> work in today's marketplace.
>
> I talk to startups all the time who work with the big vendors. I
> consistently hear that Microsoft's tone and actions have shifted
> dramatically under Nadella. Microsoft went from a company that was
> difficult to work with to one that it is cooperative, friendly and open.
>
> The wolf in sheep's clothing idea might make sense on a certain level, but
> the market reality belies it. If Microsoft wants to be a cloud and
> developer focused company, it simply can't be a control freak anymore and
> Nadella and his executive team understand that.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:03 PM Daniel Dern via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
>> On 10/14/19 10:48 AM, Lynn Greiner via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> > Which is rather funny, given how active Microsoft is in the open source
>> > community now. But I guess there always has to be a Big Bad.
>> >
>> > Funny you should use a comic book, er, "graphic novel" reference.
>>
>> It feels like I first heard that phraseology used in Buffy (the TV
>> series), which led to it being used as an explicit term in further Buffy
>> episodes, and other shows, movies, comics, etc.
>>
>> (Also, explicitly, in Bill Willingham's wonderful FABLES comic series,
>> with Bigby Wolf, who was, along with having a human form at times, indeed
>> the original Big Bad Wolf.)
>>
>> Cue B Streisand <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vseHWl15Q>
>>
>>
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