I just received an email beginning:
Dear Geoffrey:
Congratulations on your 20 years of service with Sun!
In recognition of this milestone, we are pleased to offer you an award for your contribution and dedication to our company. To view your award options, please visit the website below. [Etcetera.]
Who'd have thunk it? [And come to think of it, where did that expression come from?]
I remember one hot summer day going to see Barry Folsom at the Sun sales office in Waltham. Barry had just been hired by Bernie Lacroute to head up the planned-but-as-yet-unstaffed East Coast Division of Sun. I asked Barry if his job offer was still open (he'd tried to hire me into the Rainbow group at Digital); he responded by asking me if I had any thoughts about how to accomodate IBM PCs in this new Network File System stuff that Bill Joy, Bob Lyon and Rusty Sandberg had come up with. "Yeah, I think so; I've been looking at NFS for our [Mosaic] OS," I mused, and the rest is history.
Posted by geoff2 at June 1, 2005 11:46 PMSo.... what award did you pick???
Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at June 2, 2005 12:49 AMCongratulations Geoff! You've been in the middle of a lot of change over the last 20 yaers!
Posted by: Marion Vermazen at June 2, 2005 05:35 PMSo.... what award did you pick??? A TAG Heuer watch. Unimaginative, I know, but the range of choices wasn't exactly inspiring.
Posted by: Geoff Arnold at June 3, 2005 08:57 AM