Re: : Semi OT: Academic Firewall Rules

On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 21:23 -0400, [email protected] wrote:

> Then one day, the then president had lunch with someone from IBM and
> suddenly, without any consultation with the committee, we had a new
> computer system, which apparently was a Steal of a Deal. Ultimately, it
> turned out (I heard) that the computer needed additional memory and ended
> up costing much more, but we did get a new computer system.

That was the IBM way.  They sold straight to the people who signed the
cheques.  I remember a whole benchmark team being recalled from Phoenix
after the news hit that IBM had already closed the deal.

	Mel.


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