Key Sun sales executive defects to Microsoft
crn.com | at | by Mike
Sun Microsystems' top software sales executive has left the company to join Microsoft. Barbara Gordon, who until about a month ago led Sun's software sales efforts as vice president of worldwide software sales under Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president of software, now is running the top 50 accounts for Microsoft, according to several sources.
"Sun gave its old boys club network of salespeople who had been there for 15 years responsibility for North American sales and passed her over," a Sun partner told CRN.
The partner called the move "bad news" for Sun because Gordon, who previously was Sun Chairman, President and CEO Scott McNealy's chief of staff, "knows Sun inside and out."