On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:10:04 -0700 Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote:
> IIRC, the concept was first introduced by MCI and Enron to great > fanfare and subsequent graphic demonstrations of the destructive > power of unregulated markets controlled by people of limited moral > fortitude. I thought those big organizations actually came in later. Here is an article discussing Band-X, which was one of at least two as I recall that predated some of some of those more well known, later entrants: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/11772/ John