In a message dated 6/4/2005 11:41:40 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Until a consent decree made them keep their distance, IBM did lots of university work, including discounts, donations and collaborative research. I have been told that most of the folks at the Cambridge Scientific Center who were asked, post-decree, to transfer to Yorktown Heights ended up at Route 128 minicomputer companies. >> I didn't think the consent degree had anything to do with it. Made them unbundle, but were still giving deep discounts to .edu's thru the eighties via HESC. Early to mid 90's things really started going south. When BOCA folded lots of them were reassigned to Back-office at Redmond and I guess are still there. Then they decided to terminate HESC and charge us commercial rates for everything while Sun and others were discounting 85%. Then they took away PSR's and SE's and farmed out the Marketing to ISV's competing against themselves and spreading lots of FUD. As Windows matured and got colossal penetration, the CS departments started teaching .html and WEBdesign with JAVA and C++ and Frontpage as follow ups. No COBOL, ASM, Fortran, PL/1, JCL, etc to be seen. This has been going on for about ten years and they're starting to wonder where their base is? There ain't one! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
