Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >Hmm. Sanjay Kumar did some serious jail time for fiddling the books. Steve
>Richards was sent to a dangerous max-security prison. I'd forgotten about Richards, though when I went to refresh my memory I found that Wikipedia seems to dispute your "max-security" assertion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Richards_(business_executive)#Punishme nt In 2000, when CA bought Sterling, Sanjay came down to Virginia for a dog-and-pony to tell us how wonderful it was all going to be. There were about 150 people in the room; Richards was not one of them. Within a year, two of those 150 were in federal prisons. That always struck me as (I hope!) statistically unlikely. (The other was Scott Tyree, with whom I worked, and who had seemed no odder than the average geek. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Kozakiewicz#Abduction for the sordid story.) On a lighter note, the best part of the dog-and-pony was when Sanjay asked for questions. Some of the founders of Sterling also founded the Michaels craft stores, and every January Sterling employees all found a 10% discount card in their mailboxes. One of the Sterling guys-an infamous joker-stood up and asked Sanjay if we'd still get our Michaels discount cards. He clearly had ZERO idea what this was about, but we sure enjoyed it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
