Project info for DougNassaurWatch

Created 2 Jan 2003 at 19:24 UTC by davidw, last modified 15 Dec 2005 at 23:28 UTC by davidw.

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Doug Nassaur watch is a place to collect information about this person, and his business activities.

He is currently "President and CEO" of TrueNorthTechnology. As former Linuxcare CEO Art Tyde says, BEWARE.

16 December, 2005 Another article turns up casting Doug in a favorable light: http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=169600370&flatPage=true An anonymous person says that: "the datacenters that he says he has are actually based on a relationship with a datacenter provider and he only has equipment deployed to 1 of their centers in a cage. Slashed headcount..... he's recently lost 2 senior managers including David Williamson his #1 guy"

14 June, 2005 And another article related to Sun: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=164302930

4 November 2004 Doug and True North Technologies have surfaced again, this time as a partner of Tarantella: http://www.tarantella.com/news/releases/2004/27.html.

6 February 2004 Doug quoted again in the press, in an article by Paula Rooney about the SCO controversy:

"SCO is right. IBM is trying to steal the code under the cloak of open source," said Douglas Nassaur, president and CEO of True North Technology, a Sun Microsystems partner based in Alpharetta, Ga. "IBM supports open source and hopes SCO gets hijacked so they can steal it. At that point, IBM won't need the open-source community or SCO because they'll have the code."

9 July 2003 Doug still seems to have good relations with someone at Sun/in the press, as he was quoted for this article: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20030708/tc_cmp/10818349

4 April 2003 Doug will be participating in a technology related "chalk talk" together with representatives from Sun Microsystems at a professional golf tournament.

2 January 2003 Several anonymous correspondents sent email to talk about Doug's activities:

I must say I was VERY surprised to find out he landed some pretty important management/technical positions (he was in his early 20's when I met him, and I don't think he even took any college-level classes), and was also intrigued by how many piles of flaming wreckage he appears to have left in his path. Not surprised, though. I could tell you many 'Doug' stories that would amaze but probably not surprise you.

I use to work for Doug at ETRADE. I sometimes go out and search for his name to see what kind of damage he is doing and where.

7 October 2002 Heard from an individual who had some dealings with Doug, who was working for a large soft-drink firm in Atlanta, and subsequently moved to fire Doug for breach of contract. Terms like "false statements" (he lied about having a degree, for instance), "violation of NDA" and "intimidation" were involved.

27 November 2001 In the wake of the Anthrax terror attacks, Doug turns up right away with an initiative to make money off of the situation: http://www.sengent.com/company/news_11_27_01.html

April 2001 Here is a story about Doug's time at Sparkfly: http://www.workindex.com/editorial/hre/hre0104-15.asp
Look towards the end of the article, under "More than Concierge".

April 2000 Doug Nassaur fired from Linuxcare, after approximately 6 months on the job. Story here: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-239444.html?legacy=cnet. Basically, he spent a lot of money on things the company didn't need - in fact, most of what he bought was subsequently sold off (at a big loss of course).

Doug's Employment History (please help fill in dates)
??? 2002 - Present (2003): True North Technology, Alpharetta, GA
Jun 2001 - May 2002: Sengent, Boca Raton, Florida
May 2000 - May 2001: Sparkfly, Atlanta, GA
Sep 1999 - Apr 2000: Linuxcare, San Francisco, CA
??? - 1999: E*Trade, Atlanta, GA - stock ticker
???: Holiday Inn Worldwide
???: BellSouth.net
???: GTE Wireless
???: Carpenter Company
???: Signet Banking Corporation

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