Behind the curtain of Microsoft's 'Great Oz'
InternetNews | at | by Mike
By many accounts, Ray Ozzie stepped into some big shoes just over a year ago when he took over Bill Gates' day-to-day role as Microsoft's chief software architect.
What made Gates think he was and is up to the job? Plenty, including Ozzie's own innovative footprints going back over twenty years that still influence the tech industry.
But is that pedigree enough to help lead Microsoft into the next era of software? Ozzie is well known as the father of Lotus Notes in the early 1980s, the first -? and some would argue still the pre-eminent -? groupware/collaboration application.