7 posts and columns on NeXT

Former Sun CEO Schwartz Joins Board of Moxie Software

in News on October 26, 2011 at 4:50 am PT

Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO who saw Sun Microsystems through to its acquisition by Oracle, isn’t sitting still. He has taken three board seats and runs a health-focused start-up.
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Essay: Jobs’s Departure as CEO of Apple Is the End of an Extraordinary Era

in Mossblog on August 24, 2011 at 6:18 pm PT

Why the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO resigns.
Walt Mossberg and Steve Jobs share a laugh at D5.

Mac Daddy Serlet's Surprise Departure More of a Planned Transition

in News on March 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm PT

So Bertrand Serlet, senior vice president of Mac software engineering and the guy who spent the past decade defining, redefining and iterating Mac OS X, is leaving Apple. Why now?

Bertrand Serlet, Longtime Steve Jobs Colleague at Apple, to Depart Top Mac OS Post

in Mobile on March 23, 2011 at 7:04 am PT

Apple announced on Wednesday that the head of engineering for Mac software, Bertrand Serlet, is leaving the company. Serlet, a longtime colleague of Jobs at both NeXT and Apple, has been at the company since 1997.

Apple vs. Google: Game On

in Mobile on March 2, 2010 at 1:18 pm PT

Is Apple’s lawsuit against HTC a proxy through which to strike at Google and its increasingly popular Android OS? It certainly looks that way. While not directly named in the lawsuit, Google figures prominently in it simply because of the sheer number of times “Android products” are called out in the complaint.

Microsoft's Man in Silicon Valley, Dan'l Lewin, Speaks!

in News on March 12, 2009 at 10:07 am PT

A few weeks ago, BoomTown had lunch at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View with Dan’l Lewin, the software giant’s corporate VP for strategic and emerging business development. In other words, Microsoft’s friendly face in the Valley, in charge of its operations there, which has about 2,000 employees. Most of them work for other Microsoft divisions, leaving Lewin primarily responsible for the company’s relationships with start-ups, venture capitalists and industry partners. In other words, hoping that Google now seems scarier than Microsoft used to be. Here’s a video interview with him about all that and more.
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When Steve Jobs Said “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” — He Did Not Mean This Foolish

in News on January 15, 2009 at 2:53 am PT

The restless frenzy is what is perhaps most disturbing of all about the never-ending obsessive death watch that has centered on Apple CEO Steve Jobs. What doesn’t make your skin crawl about it? That’s why BoomTown thinks it is time to listen to the wise words Jobs delivered at a now legendary Stanford Commencement address in 2005. The last words of the speech came from the back of “The Whole Earth Catalog”: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” I think right about now, that foolish part has gone way too far for Jobs and the rest of us.