> On May 27, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 May 2016, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: >> There was a political fight within IBM and the Unix center of competency >> moved from Boca Raton, FL to Austin, TX. All of the Series/1 Unix >> materials were destroyed at that point (it was a *nasty* fight). > > That sounds very much like IBM. I was there for @ four years (from 2000 > to the end of 2003). When people ask me about it, I tell them "IBM is > 300,000 employees. That's like a large city. In a city you have a nice > part of town (Watson) where people can more or less follow their dreams > and make all kinds of neat/crazy stuff. Then there is the slums (IBM GS) > where folks are treated like crap and act like animals." > > Man, they destroyed the materials.... daaaamn. That's some hatin’
I was at IBM from 1979 through 1997. Started in Boca Raton and finished up in Austin. There was a lot of politics going on the entire time I was there. One of the reasons that I left was that the project that I helped start (and worked on for 5+ years) was cancelled because a director got himself into trouble with OS/2 (when was it *not* in trouble) and decided that the folks who were working on the project I was on (who were considered the “stars” of the division) would be better applied to OS/2 (we cancelled SW that customers had already paid for). I don’t think any of us who were “drafted” into OS/2 stayed more than a year after that. TTFN - Guy
