It's weird to me that the original blog post put Soma's name in "scare quotes." Soma is the Corporate VP of Developer Division at Microsoft, which means he's in charge of—among other things—Visual Studio, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, the now-dead Expression Studio, and I'm sure a few other things.
He goes by Soma because his full name is Sivaramakichenane Somasegar (really, I looked it up in Headtrax once and remember it, for whatever reason, seven years later). And, let's be honest, that is really hard to spell.
It's weird to me that the original blog post put Soma's name in "scare quotes." Soma is the Corporate VP of Developer Division at Microsoft, which means he's in charge of—among other things—Visual Studio, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, the now-dead Expression Studio, and I'm sure a few other things.
He goes by Soma because his full name is Sivaramakichenane Somasegar (really, I looked it up in Headtrax once and remember it, for whatever reason, seven years later). And, let's be honest, that is really hard to spell.