Vint Cerf Leaves MCI for GoogleI know I'm just cynical, but this really feels like a "publicity" hire. What is Mr. Cerf going to do... explain to the folks at Google how there is this wonderful thing called the Internets? Not that Mr. Cerf isn't ridiculously well qualified, but it's not like Google doesn't have some visionaries on staff already. I suppose you can never have too many smart people.It is one thing that Google can offer that almost no other large software company can... the ability to work on something that will be very big and totally new. MS was able to offer this to Anders Hejlsberg back when they hired him to work on the DotNet framework and C#. If you were a visionary, why would you join MS now? To finish off bugs and ship a product that you basically had nothing to do with? Not very appealing.
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