“That’s ridiculous. I’m not even going to grace this with a response,” says Fredrickson.
The lawsuit against Kowowska is one of several claims EMC has filed against former employees. Eric Mann and Tom Karrat, formerly senior sales executives at EMC, now at StorageApps, have had similar suits brought against them. These are ongoing matters, and neither Mann nor Karrat were available for comment.
Harald Skardale, a former engineer at EMC, also jumped ship to Network Appliance, and EMC filed suit against him, too. That case, however, was settled out of court. The Karwowska trial is scheduled to resume in November.
Laura Conigliaro, a senior analyst covering this market at Goldman Sachs & Co. says the case “probably won’t have much of an impact on EMC within the marketplace -- these cases never do.” The suit may, however, affect how senior technical people within the industry view non-compete clauses in their employment agreements.
— Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch http://www.byteandswitch.com
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