When I worked for ASG one of the things I did was work with Art Allen on acquisitions. Some company that ASG bought -- I have forgotten which one -- there were a lot -- Art did the "you've been acquired" dog and pony talk at the company's main location, and I was sent out to do it at some satellite location. I showed up, called everyone (maybe a dozen or so folks, mostly developers) together and did a brief "you've been acquired" talk. I asked if there were any questions and one of the coders raised his hand and asked "can we go back to work now?"
I always thought that was kind of a classic geek moment. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2022 10:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Deceived Investors 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
