It's not faith, so much as understanding their motivation. These organizations want government involvement in their business even less than than we want it in ours. And a reorg is a pretty expensive way to kill off products. All of these organizations have killed off WAY more products independent of any reorganization than in combination with one.
They want to maximize their corporate and personal profits, and they want to win all corporate political battles. That's the primary motivation. I've seen that up close and personal in too many organizations to think otherwise at this point. Now, as it pertains to your Microsofts, Apples, Googles, etc, since there is no way to achieve those aforementioned goals while ignoring the NSA and the CIA, they have no problem sacrificing our privacy, security, data, or whatever else to ensure that they are still left to do what they want. 9 times out of 10, a reorgs is a cute, but very expensive way of achieving the following set of goals: -- firing a set of high-level people -- mitigating the potential fallout of losing high-level people who might have a following -- getting rid of (or minimizing the impact of) one or more departments or divisions -- solidifying an internal power structure / undermining an opposing internal power structure -- making it look to wall street and investors that you're taking charge or in control -- putting your mark on an organization None of those things particularly support or undermine the NSA initiatives. PRISM and all similar projects will likely go unchanged with regards to this reorg... *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Jon Harris <jk.har...@live.com> wrote: > You have way more faith in the companies than I do at this point. > Wall Street may have something to do with it but I still see it as a way to > kill products and allow the Gov to get their hooks into more stuff. > > Jon > > ------------------------------ > From: asbz...@gmail.com > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:08:11 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? "The frontie r of > high-value scenarios we enable will march outward" > To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > > > Nah... The reorg is primarily internal politics and Wall Street boosting. > > The NSA issue is primarily a matter for legal counsel... > > > > > > > > *ASB > **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* > **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) > for the SMB market…*** > > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Jon Harris <jk.har...@live.com> wrote: > > Does it really matter at this point? With the release of more information > on how deep the NSA had their hooks into all of the online services and > Microsoft still claiming they only did what they were forced to do? I see > the re-org as a way to kill off some of the products that will most likely > take the biggest hits from their "cooperation" with the NSA/FBI/CIA/other > alphabet soup agencies. They have now spread out the products in a way to > allow for losses to be hidden easier and also allow the gov to get more > hooks into more products. > > Jon > > ------------------------------ > From: r...@finnesey.com > To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? "The frontie r of > high-value scenarios we enable will march outward" > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:49:14 +0000 > > > Who are the 2 "let's see how this turns out" leaders? > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: > listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew S. Baker > *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2013 2:42 PM > *To:* ntsysadm > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? "The frontie r of > high-value scenarios we enable will march outward" > > I would be less ambivalent if they had 4 strong, seasoned execs at the > head of those 4 "new" divisions, than with 2 strong leaders + 2 "let's see > how this turns out" leaders. > > Only time will tell... > > > > > *ASB > **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* > **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) > for the SMB market…* > > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Rod Trent <rodtr...@myitforum.com> > wrote: > > Paul has a couple good pieces on it, too… > > Reorg announcement: > http://winsupersite.com/microsoft-announces-sweeping-reorg > > Reorg explained: > http://winsupersite.com/mobile/microsoft-reorg-explained-0 > > > > *From:* listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto: > listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] *On Behalf Of *Free, Bob > *Sent:* Thursday, July 11, 2013 12:25 PM > *To:* ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] MS Re-Org -New T-shirt? “The frontier of high-value > scenarios we enable will march outward” > > > http://allthingsd.com/20130711/heres-microsofts-strategy-essay-and-reorg-announcement-memos/ > > > ------------------------------ > PG&E is committed to protecting our customers' privacy. > To learn more, please visit > http://www.pge.com/about/company/privacy/customer/ > ------------------------------ > > > > >
