Father of WebSphere Leaves IBM For Microsoft

jg21 writes: .NET Developer's Journal is reporting that the "Father of WebSphere," Don Ferguson, has left IBM to join Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie's office. Ozzie, who efforts to rebuild Microsoft have been discussed previously on Slashdot, is gaining a man who while at Blue championed were Web services, patterns, Web 2.0 and business-driven development, a potent combo for the future that Microsoft is trying to bring into being.