Microsoft loses pair of engineers
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft this week lost a key software engineer to Amazon.com, following another recent departure to Google. Pat Helland, a longtime Microsoft software developer, announced last week through his blog on Microsoft's MSDN developer network site that he left the software giant on March 4 and planned to start at Amazon on March 7.
"On Jan. 24, Amazon approached me to work helping their systems and applications become more scalable and fault-tolerant," Helland wrote on his blog. "Amazon has embraced the need to migrate to service-oriented architecture and wants me to help in that effort...Amazon has one of the world's largest and most challenging applications. The difficulties involved in keeping the application available are both technical and social."