“One of the more interesting people I’ve talked with in the last
two years is a figment of his own imagination. “Craig Barth,” the
chief technology officer of Florida-based Devil Mountain Software,
a company that makes and markets Windows performance metrics
software, is, I have discovered, nobody. He doesn’t exist.“Barth is, in fact, a nom de plume, which is a fancy, French way
of saying “alias.” The real man behind the curtain is Randall C.
Kennedy, a popular, sometimes outrageous blogger for and frequent
contributor to InfoWorld, a publication that like Computerworld is
part of IDG. Kennedy’s connection to InfoWorld was severed on
Friday.“The two, Barth and Kennedy, are one and the same.”
“One of the more interesting people I’ve talked with in the last
two years is a figment of his own imagination. “Craig Barth,” the
chief technology officer of Florida-based Devil Mountain Software,
a company that makes and markets Windows performance metrics
software, is, I have discovered, nobody. He doesn’t exist.“Barth is, in fact, a nom de plume, which is a fancy, French way
of saying “alias.” The real man behind the curtain is Randall C.
Kennedy, a popular, sometimes outrageous blogger for and frequent
contributor to InfoWorld, a publication that like Computerworld is
part of IDG. Kennedy’s connection to InfoWorld was severed on
Friday.“The two, Barth and Kennedy, are one and the same.”