[ale] [OT] Life north of ATL?

[Lightner, Jeff]

Back in the early 90s after IBM had finally started laying people off I had occasion to go down to the IBM tower in midtown to talk to a guy there about AIX which we had just begun using (on an RS6000 320h as I recall).   He was the only guy on the entire floor.   I often thought that must be truly depressing knowing they've laid off everyone around you and eventually will figure out they can save money by getting rid of the last guy to free the floor out for leasing to someone else.

Similarly when I first moved to Durham in 2002 and worked in RTP it was very eerie to drive by the huge Nortel campus that was essentially completely shut down and taped off.   I've occasionally been tempted to go see if anyone else ever moved into that campus.

One of the things I really liked about RTP (which was also true of many of the surrounding office parks) was that they all had asphalt paths for walking/jogging/bike riding all through the campuses.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 3:23 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Life north of ATL?

On 06/06/2012 02:33 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Research Triangle Park
> http://www.rtp.org/about-rtp
>
> An interesting political unit.  It is a "city" except no one lives in it and there are only business campuses in it.   (No gas stations, no restaurants except cafeterias within given campuses, no condos, no apartments, no houses).
>
> Research Triangle is an area of NC so called because it is bounded by Raleigh with NC State, Durham with Duke University and Chapel Hill with UNC.   The state chartered RTP long ago.    Cisco is one of the big technology companies that has a presence there.   GlaxoSmithKline has major campuses there.   (I use the plural because they were a merger of two other pharmaceuticals each of which had a campus).  GSK is so big that all of their stuff didn't fit in RTP - where I worked for them was actually in Durham.   When I worked for Cisco it was actually in RTP.  Other businesses like RedHat are in Research Triangle area but not actually in RTP itself.
>
>
When I worked for Cray Research around 1990, we had an office in RTP and nearby was the IBM office with more employees than the entire Cray Research company.  A little intimidating trying to compete with them.
Jim.
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