[84259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andre Oppermann)
Fri Sep 9 05:09:48 2005
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:09:15 +0200
From: Andre Oppermann <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <A9CF5DC8-C93A-4FB9-A289-0D5D25A44195@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:09 PM, Mark Bodley wrote:
>
>> His name has never "hurt" a companies stock price. Remember MCI--Um,
>> Worldcom. Remembering.. Um lost a ton of money... just remember.
>> First time
>> I have noticed Google do anything so blatant. Time to sell Google?
>> Are they
>> spending money on figure heads?
>
> Dr. Cerf is still well in possession of his enormous faculties and has
> an excellent grasp of both business and technical issues. He is an
> asset to any company he joins.
>
> Figure Head? Possibly. But certainly not an empty one.
I'm not so sure he still up to it. His performance as ICANN chairman
is not exactly stellar...
--
Andre