[ale] IBM to buy SUN?

[Kenneth Ratliff]

On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> I gather that you and he were in completely different parts of the  
> organization.   I was at Ale NW for one of the presentations done  
> there about the Linux/MySQL stuff.   Maybe they have another data  
> center for the non-web stuff?  There is a big colo site around the  
> corner from TWC.  He and I worked together at another company where  
> he was the lead developer and at the time I spoke to him a year or  
> so ago he was in some sort of Development Management role at TWC.
>
> What his group does I don’t know but it was AFTER that you and I  
> spoke at Ale NW (which went dormant before you left TWC due to the  
> construction).  I recall asking you about HP-UX during one of the  
> Ale NW meetings and you said so far as you knew TWC never used it  
> but I know for a fact one of the first ads I saw on my return to  
> Atlanta 4+ years ago was for an HP-UX admin for TWC.

And this is when acronym's start to screw with you... being a network  
nerd, I translated TWC to Time Warner Cable, it wasn't until I saw the  
other messages that I realized you meant The Weather Channel!

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