Apple's CEO becomes a Microsoft employee! ;-)
Christian Maranitsch
This guy is Apple Computers' CEO.
Apple Computers Austria, that is.
Oh, and CEO, that actually is a "was" from today onwards.
He is now a Microsoft employee.
From August 2002 to July 2004, Christian Maranitsch headed the Austrian division of Apple Computers, Inc. Don't worry if you didn't know. Austria is a relatively small country (8 million inhabitants). And Apple is a relatively small computer manufacturer (market share below 3%). Actually, this post is going to be the first english language hit that Google finds for Christian's name and Apple. Nonetheless, a lot of companies have a national subsidiary in Austria. So does Apple, and so does Microsoft.
The news, to get back to the lurid title of this post, is that Christian Maranitsch yesterday quit as Apple Autria's CEO to become a department head of the "Enterprise & Partner Group" department of Microsoft Austria (serving approx. 300 enterprise customers). Which still is, in a relatively small country, a relatively small company (with about 200 employees).
Herbert Schweiger
You may or may not be too surprised to learn that Christian had already been working with his new boss, Microsoft Austria's CEO Herbert Schweiger, who has been with Microsoft since February this year. Christian Maranitsch was a Sales- and Marketing Manager at Compaq Austria, when Herbert Schweiger headed the company between September 1999 and 2003. When Compaq and HP merged, Herbert Schweiger left to lead his first employer IBM Austria's small businesses department, until he joined Microsoft Austria as their CEO shortly afterwards.
After all, Austria is a relatively small country. ;-)