{"id":8065,"date":"2016-11-17T11:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T10:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:50:17","slug":"plus-ca-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2016\/11\/17\/plus-ca-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus \u00e7a change …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not so much of a long, profound blog story today – more of a Thought for the Day.<\/p>\n

There is a Chinese curse, a variation of which is \u201cMay you live in interesting times.\u201d Looking at the events of the past few weeks, it seems to me that we all are truly cursed \u2026<\/p>\n

Looking back through this year, through the months, weeks, even days, there seem to have been a countless number of celebrity deaths, for example – Prince, Bowie, Leonard Cohen \u2026 I am not going to discuss politics here, but the changes in that domain are going to be resounding for many years to come. At this moment, I have some events much closer to home on my mind.<\/p>\n

Last month, I wrote about<\/a> the history of Mentor Graphics being involved with embedded software and my own 30-year tenure with the company. I mentioned the various transformations that I had seen over the years. I was unaware that more change was on the way. Early on Monday morning came the surprise [for me] announcement that Mentor Graphics had been acquired by Siemens. We are assured that this is nothing but a positive event and I certainly have no information to the contrary. I hold no knowledge beyond that which has been reported in the press in recent days, so I have no analysis to offer. I guess that it will all become apparent as 2017 unfolds. We surely do live in interesting times.<\/p>\n

A good friend advised me a few days ago. He said that change inevitably happens and you either shun it or embrace it; he favored the latter. I reflected that, in my 30 years tenure, I have seen a lot of change, but I am still here. I guess that I must have embraced change. I realized that I could put an interesting number on it. I joined a company with about 30 people. I now find myself working for a company with 350,000 staff – that\u2019s an increase of 10,000X!<\/p>\n

Instead of the Chinese curse, I rather prefer the French phrase plus \u00e7a change, plus c’est la m\u00eame chose<\/em>. This means – more or less – the more things change, the more they stay the same<\/em>. Or, perhaps, as Kurt Vonnegut might have put it, so it goes<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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