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[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

> On May 27, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at 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