Shadow Ram
Who will replace Swaminathan?
Channel speculations about who will replace Ravi Swaminathan refuse to die down. After the early round of channel buzz about ex-Microsoft VP Rajiv Srivastava joining HP, several leading partners are now suggesting that Sunil Dutt, Samsung’s Country Manager for mobile business is in the running for the post too. Dutt’s recent resignation from Samsung seems to have sparked the news.
Seeking anonymity, a leading HP partner offered that the PC-major has already hired Dutt and he is likely to join HP from November—beginning of HP’s fiscal year. “With the PC business becoming more consumer-centric, HP wants to hire a person in Ravi’s place with a lot of experience in consumer marketing and sales. Also the PC business in the next couple of years will become as broad based as the mobile phone business,” he said.
While Samsung sources confirmed Dutt’s resignation, HP denied the channel speculation that he is joining in place of Ravi Swaminathan. HP also added that they have yet not finalized the replacement for Swaminathan and the head hunting was still on.
Shadow would believe the channel more than the HP spokesperson. Because as early as January 2009, the channel had news that Swaminathan was exiting HP—a fact that the company continued to deny till recently.
Linux has gained weight
Literally, in terms of its footprint on the system. This view was expressed by none other than Linus Trovalds who stunned the open source community by admitting that the Linux kernel has become “bloated”.
Speaking at a conference of open source developers, the father of Linux said that the OS had become “huge and scary”. He further added that today’s Linux “was definitely not the streamlined, hyper-efficient kernel I envisioned when I started writing Linux."
Linux loyalist call Windows as the bloated operating system, but now the tables have turned and not by Microsoft but the big daddy himself. |