Raikes Gains Server Business

Windows Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio are among the products recently added to the responsibilities of President Jeff Raikes in a recent reorganization. The move of the Server & Tools organization, which is responsible for those and many other server products, will enable Platform Products & Services President Kevin Johnson to concentrate on the company’s online strategy, but it could also complicate Windows development.

Server and Tools Intact, But Moved

Bob Muglia, senior vice president, Server & Tools, now reports to Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s Business Division, rather than to Kevin Johnson as before. Muglia’s organization continues to develop and market all the company’s server products other than the Office-branded servers (such as Communications Server, Project Server, and SharePoint Server) and Exchange Server, which were already in Raikes’s organization.

Sanjay Parthasarathy, corporate vice president, Developer & Platform Evangelism, now reports to Muglia rather than Johnson. As before, Parthasarathy’s group will market Microsoft’s .NET Framework development platform and associated products and tools (most of which fall under Muglia) to developers and IT professionals.