His other trouble is that he was visibly immature once it comes to tools and games. While there is nothing wrong about Secondlife, you can not build a company strategy around it.

He is not the one who introduced PBT (neither is Morin the big politician), all what he did was noticing it, then pushing it as there is nothing else he can introduce.

He started to build an irrelavent empire of large Project management team with more than a 100 people it led by another politician who have no clue about product development. He kick started a S/W process review which was forced on all team regardeless of their market (forced the same pocess on enterprise and carrier) and wasted the time of hunders of senior people re-writing these processes which no one wanted, and no one understood it.

He is not a good fit for a CTO, never been and too bad he is taking more money from Nortel as he leaves. He is the worst CTO nortel had.

My impression is that John was an intelligent engineer. WAY out of his depth in Nortel and unprepared to lead an organization larger than a half dozen junior people.

I work for the CTO office of a major global carrier and I not heard that he is thought of badly. At least that is not the information I have. Not that they think especially highly of him either.

He had plenty of chances and screwed them all. For info, strategy suggestions were not his call. He correctly identified that software (and lack of a comprehensive software architecture) was a big hole at NT but did nothing about it even though he was presented with one hell of a blueprint. It wasn’t HIS blueprint.

He then got on the WiMax soapbox (not having ANY background in the subject) and single-handedly decided to choose the technology behind it before the market did (for clarification, it is always the market that decides the technology; see the early DSL line coding wars; Betamax vs VHS; IP vs SNA; IP vs. OSI: etc., etc., etc.).

And, for a while, JR was Mike Z’s golden boy with carte blanche authority, which he pissed away, even upstaging the CSO; the very person that got him there. He then made a couple of acquisitions, one of which was to help an old comrade (Mads Lilelund at Bluesocket).

Should I continue? As I said before JR and Ms. Flaherty are the best (read: worst) examples of what’s wrong with Corporate America; resumes that talk-the-talk but are total invalids when asked to walk-the-walk.

Enough of JR; let’s move onto more important and urgent matters such as: Will Jose Murinho be back at Inter Milan next year?

Cheers,

bb

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Those cats were fat as whitening
In fact it was a little bit frightening
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