>>> Last week I saw that IBM is selling off *some* of their building >>> downtown for condo's > >> You didn't say where. IBM sold its Cottle Road facility in San Jose. I >> can't imagine how much it sold for, but given the value of property in >> Silicon Valley, and given the potential cost of cleanup after 50 years >> of disk manufacturing, they probably made out pretty well. I >> believe the employees moved to SVL.
>This was in Chicago, sorry for the omission, but another person said >similar things about Milwaukee. This is old news. They did the same thing in Minneapolis in 1995. The office space there was more expensive per square foot than in Chicago. IBM moved to a mobile model. They provide temporary cubicles for when people have to come into the office; otherwise most people work from home. Bob Shannon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
