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Previously:

Feb 7:

Not a good week for Enterasys. #15-seed Henry Fiallo, CEO of Enterasys, fell in heavy (some not-so-legal) voting to #11-seed Harald Alvestrand, chair of the IETF, 1370-1085. A few, what we assume are Enterasys backers, with Mediaone and RoadRunner cable modems tried to swing the vote Fiallo's way with large blocks of votes, but those were elimintated. Sadly, a large contigent of votes coming from the Enterasys domain were for Alvestrand - must be Aprisma employees upset about the delayed spinout from the mother ship. Our other match gave Brocade CEO Greg Reyes (#13 seed) a victory over #1-seed Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, 1234-488. Comments:

"Adam Vinatieri. He's going to kick the competition and bring the prize home to Enterasys." ... "Henry has had bad luck in the past few days but is weathering the storm well." ... "Wall Street can take a hike, Fiallo is STILL THE MAN!" ... "Sun seems to be rapidly getting squeezed out of the game by Linux and Microsoft. As for Enterasys vs. the IETF, Henry obviously has the better haircut!" ... "He's the boss and he sends us lovely mails every day, telling us how brilliant we are."

Feb 1:

The way things are shaping up, we may have to beef up our Fusion server farm if Grey Reyes and Henry Fiallo continue to garner beaucoup votes. #13-seed Reyes, CEO of Brocade, toasted "Father of the Internet" and #5-seed Vint Cerf, 327-74. Also, Java edge national security as #1-seed Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, defeated #8-seed Tom Ridge, director of Homeland Security, 156-140. Comments:

"I feel these are the guys to beat (Cerf and McNealy), Vint Cerf should win out in the end." ... "Aw, come on! A year ago, he was governor of PA. Now he's contending for the most powerful person in the network industry? I'm so perturbed, I can't figure out who I want for Matchup 2." ... "I used to be an MCI WorldCom customer; I don't know if those folks can even tie their shoes."

Jan 28:

The insanity continues as Enterasys employees propel CEO and #15-seed Henry Fiallo to another crushing victory, this time a 799-64 defeat of #7-seed Tim Berners-Lee, director of the W3C. Fiallo will face #11-seed Harald Alverstand, chair of the IETF, in Round 3. Alverstand narrowly edged out #14-seed Drew Major, CEO of Volera, 262-212. Comments:

"1 - The web is driven far more by end user and corporate demand than by the controlling body that looks after it. Matchup 2 - The IETF still has an important part to play in defining the standards that the industry adheres to." ... "Henry has more smart geeks working for him!!! Henry ROCKS!" ... "XML is the future, and will drive database applications of the future. Novell is King! Anyone with such a connection to that product will always win out."

Jan 22:

Predictability is setting in as we near the end of Round 1 with both top seeds surviving to play another day. #1-seed Scott McNealy of Sun defeated #16-seed Mark Floyd, the head of Siemens Information and Communications Networks, 61-26. Also, "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf, a #5 seed, defeated #12-seed Bill Coleman, founder and chief strategy officer of BEA Systems, 65-22. Comments:

"Vint Cerf is my main man!" ... "Sun because of Java, Cerf is a no-brainer :)" ... "I used to view Scott McNealy as somewhat of a whiner (MS Basher with a case of Sour Grapes), until I saw him speak for two hours (without a single note and definitely not a PowerPoint Presentation). He was very passionate and did a great job of getting myself and others to buy into his vision. Vinton Cerf (THE DADDY) vs. Bill Who?" ... "You heard it here first-Telco's are going to take over. These guy's along with Nacchio are going to be the one's left standing after the computer geeks byte it."

Jan 15:

Another upset in round 1 as #14-seed Drew Major of Volera knocked off #3-seed C. Michael Armstrong, the head of AT&T, 73-62. Our other match followed a more traditional path with #8-seed Tom Ridge, the director of Homeland Security, defeating Microsoft's Ben Waldman, a #9 seed, 85-39. Comments:

"Armstrong was proven wrong and Ridge has no power." ... "Drew Major's Netware is still the best Network operating system out there." ... "I don't think Volera is going to go anywhere. Neither is the Office of Homeland Security." ... "Drew rocks and anybody from Microsoft should hang their heads!" ... "Ridge hasn't proven an understanding of Network Security and how it relates to national security."

Jan 9:

After eliminating some obvious voter fraud from our tallies, the IETF's Harald Alverstand defeated Microsoft's Eric Rudder, 69-21, and Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee took out teleworker champion Tim Kane, 72-18. Comments:

"Harald does great stuff at the IETF and it is certainly better than what I would expect from a platform evangelist from MS. I pretty much just guessed on the second one." ... "Microsoft doesn't own the world." ... "As device and data access interoperation contiue to increase in importance, the people that make interoperation happen continue to hold the power, especially when exercised by leadership rather than by command." ... "The best thing for all of us would be for the Air Force to "accidentally" Daisy Cutter M$ HQ."

Jan 3:

Greg Reyes of Brocade edges out Carly Fiorina of HP, 1030-1002 and Henry Fiallo of Enterasys creams Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, 1449-429. Comments:

See Compendium for quotes and analysis.

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