Podcasts!

I know i'm laaaaate, but i just dived into the fun & power of podcasts (mainly while commuting).

So much  interesting content out there!

Currently i listen to news-podcasts and technical channels.

First highlight: https://www.se-radio.net/2019/04/363-jonathan-boccara-on-understanding-legacy-code/

Mergers: SW Companies

     IBM

       <---     Rational

                                                        <--- Dynatrace

                                                    Compuware

                                                        --->  (spinoff)

                               <--- Serena               
                Borland--->
                               <--- Novell/Suse
                               <-------------------(test/SQ)
                         MicroFocus

                                                              Broadcom

                                                                   -----> (chips) avago

                                                       CA ------>

Mergers: Semiconductor Industry

I've worked for Infineon and Fujitsu in the past, know some ppl in that field and i'm interested in it generally, so let's sketch the Splits and Mergers of the recent past:

Legend: as blogger somehow broke the beautiful chart and i didn't want to invest a lot of time, i had do change < and > to ( and )

2000
                                              Qualcomm
     Infineon(Siemens) 
2004                                                                              Freescale (- Motorola
2006     '---) Quimonda(-2009)
     IFX Wireless  
2007                                                             LSI+Agere(Lucent)
2011     '---) Intel 
                     AMD
                         Fujitsu Semi
2013                  '---'---) Spansion
2014                               '-----) Cypress
                                                                 LSI -> Avago
2015                      '------------------------) Socionext  
                                                                 NXP(Philips) (-- Freescale                               
2019                           (------------------------------------'
2016                                                             Microchip (-- Atmel