Thursday, July 24, 2008
MicroHoo Irony: Kevin Johnson Moves in Right Next to Yahoo
Oh, BoomTown loves a delicious irony.
Kevin Johnson–who yesterday announced he was leaving his job as president of Platform and Services Division at Microsoft to become CEO of the network infrastructure company, Juniper Networks–was the point person on the software giant’s failed bid to acquire Yahoo.
Unfortunately, Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang rejected him and the rest of the Microsoft team over and over again in a very public fashion.
But who will be Johnson’s most immediate Internet neighbor be when he takes up residence, presumably at Juniper’s Sunnyvale, California, headquarters at 1194 North Mathilda Ave.?
Um, Yang!
