All may be fair in love and war, but business is business. Former Apple ally IBM has sued the head of its blade server team in order to block his move to Apple. The executive’s contract contained a noncompete clause that prevents him from working elsewhere in the industry for a year after leaving IBM.
It gets better, though, mainly because the dude’s name—and I could not make this up—is Mark Papermaster. That. Is. Awesome. I have to admit, I’ve seen a lot of weird surnames in my time—heck, I’ve got a kind of weird surname—but, there’s just something beautiful about a guy whose family probably did at one point master paper ending up in charge of computer servers.
Until last week, Papermaster was the vice president of the Blade Development unit at IBM, which sells blade servers to corporations, but he’s also worked in IBM’s research and development, including the Power microprocessor. IBM contends that means he knows much of the company’s trade secrets and IP. It’s not known precisely what position Papermaster had taken at Apple—please, please, please let it have something to do with paper. E-paper? Printing? Newspapers? Anything. Please.
i would say that you are rude for making fun of this guy's name- but this is just asking for it!
Well, you can have fun with its name, and I will leave that to you.
But, and this is the most important thing in this announce... He was leading the balde dev team... Hum, sounds great to me, if only Apple could embrace this market, I would be really excited!!! That would be funny tosee the reactions of the other companies. Oh oui!