Older IT personnel returning to Russia.

Today is March 2 (by the way, a cool sunny day - freezing on the street, but it is already clear - spring!), But something about the appointment of a new chief of the Moscow office of VMware can not hear... weird....

Moving IT staff - something common, but still would like to mention a few more events.

It seems there have been in the Parallels pretty serious business. First (September 20 011 ) Birger Steen gave the presidency, and now, in February, more and CEO. On this occasion, a funny thing: I spoke with Birger during his visit to Moscow in December. In the correspondence, it was called then the president, CEO. In this article, an interview, he was presented with two titles. And after the publication ( with a matching interview) was that he was still only the president, had to quickly correct the article, and the editors for some reason decided to write a title with a capital letter (. http://www. pcweek. ru / business / article / detail. php? ID = 127838. ).

Apparently, Serguei Beloussov not only enhances the management of companies, taking his assistants, and passes the reins of a serious. Why - the company has reached a new level when the owner and the head should be different people? .

Let's see....

Another interesting announcement in February. : Microsoft 's Moscow office appointed a special manager Skolkovo (director of Microsoft's work with the Fund ... Also an old friend.

I met him at the dawn of my journalistic career, probably in early 1996. He then worked at Intel and was engaged in, I remember the direction of Pentium OverDrive ( if it is a direction - to the new processors can be installed on older motherboards). And I then ' microprocessors ' was one of those Crown.
And my first friend from Intel was his father - Alexander Palladin, who worked there for many years head of the press service, which I was very grateful for his continuing support for ' young ' and the journalist who still seems to me an excellent example of PR- Secretary (not serkretarshi .

(By the way, my first trip abroad as a journalist on the program was just Pentium OverDrive. And it was just like ' award for excellence ... This is generally a cool story, including how we were getting a visa... Because of that trip I then refused to participate in the first (!) Parnerskom retreat workshop with '1 ' in Turkey, considering that the first - not last... Yes, there is something to remember. ).


Then, it seems, in 1997, Alex moved to MS, and the position of Chief of ' the department for work with the developers '. Well, it really was time for me, the theme of ' number one '....

On the left - a meeting on the issue of ' Training of programmers and programming education in the education system ', which took place in ' Microinform ' in 1997. It may seem strange, but I have organized this meeting, which, as ' independent ' person was able to collect different people there, including the school. Subject was then the market for our brand new... In the photo - Olga and Alexey Palladin Dergunova.

The appearance of Alexis in MS - it was such an important (one of ) the time, reflecting an important qualitative change in our IT business. In place of the former managers of programmers have come to professional managers. What it is to manage - it does not matter.

Then he was transferred to another front of the regional business, and then to strengthen its headquarters in Redmond... Well, now after 10 years abroad ' internship ', he returns to Moscow.

A recently discovered that from 13 January to lead the direction of desktop Windows is designed in Germany Sergey Alpatov.
Also an old friend, but even more familiar!.

In journalism, I came across the writing of articles on the QuickBasic (. http://www. visual. 2000. ru / develop / basicdos / index. htm. ). Started in 1991, the 94th issue ' dried up '. In 1995 I moved to the journalists with the theme of IT ( about all that ' heaves ' ), but it still was calling programmer past. So I decided to write about programming. Pro VB (. http://www. visual. 2000. ru / develop / ms-vb / index. htm. ), Which I must say, after the QB caused a persistent irritation of its primitiveness.
But there was no QB.

By the way, I must say that the project serial VB-VBA (1906-2002 gg. ) Was not only long but difficult: QB for the real program I wrote ( and a lot of interesting), and articles were produced ' by themselves ', as a consequence, and then I had to learn all the new pieces exclusively for writing articles.

In short, at the beginning of 1996 I went to some company (in m. ' Kolkhoznaya - Sukharevskaya ') and bought a box of VB 3. 0 Pro. What was in those days a rare step (buy software was not accepted ). I'm probably somewhere preserved checks, you can check, but remember, it cost about 100 dollars. ( a lot of money in those days!).

The box was UpGrade, and then - pure white. To get the upgrade, I showed something (maybe a box ) from Visual Basic for DOS 1. 0. By the way, too, bought with real money in 1994 - the first box on the development tools, which then had just appeared in Russia. Not only is the money worth, so also were deficient....

So I bought this box in early 1996 on the kolkhoz Sergei Alpatova....

Then he moved to MS and there for many years engaged in the promotion of MS Office. In the second half of the 90 began to promote MS Office as a development platform (VBA etc. ), I'm in the process was active. Then a few years the program has worked quite successfully contest Office Extensions, which taxied Sergey ( see here:. http://www. pcweek. ru / themes / detail. php? ID = 64969. ). I again took an active part in this, was written ' Khrenova cloud ' articles (. http://www. visual. 2000. ru / develop / ms-vb / vba. htm. ), We then worked with Sergei good projects to promote the theme, publication of materials on the website (while it was still a novelty )....

Parted ways in the 2002-2003 -m.
Well, maybe now again cross. And not only him, but other old friends. And new, too.