bar@datapoint.com (Brian Ruptash) (08/06/89)
It's with great regret that I announce the closure of the Datapoint
Canadian Development Centre, effective August 4th. CDC was
responsible for core OSI, TCP/IP and X.25 product development for
Datapoint Corporation, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The
corporation has decided to close the centre in an effort to
consolidate the product development organisation, and reduce
operating overhead.
As a result, the MicroVAX II system named dptcdc will be relocating
to Brussels, Belgium, and renamed dptbxl. I will be leaving today
for Brussels to manage the transition of product development,
maintenance and technology, so until my next return, dptcdc will
remain on line. Sometime in the next week or two, it will be packed
up for shipment and disconnected from the world.
As a result of this action, all of our downstream news feeds will
have to find a news source elsewhere - unless you wish to maintain
a newsfeed from Belgium (you poll us...). If I can be of assistance,
please drop me a note, and I'll try to help out when I return in
a week or so.
Regardless of changes in the geographic organisation of our corporate
network, I will still be reachable as "bar@datapoint.com" (isn't
a domain name service wonderful), and more directly (ie. via San
Antonio rather than via Brussels) as "bar@sat.datapoint.com".
I apologise for the incovenience this is bound to impose, and thank
you for your cooperation.
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Brian Ruptash | Internet: bar@datapoint.com
Principal Architect | UUCP: {uunet, utzoo}!dptcdc!bar
Datapoint Corporation | Phone: (416) 222-8005, (512) 699-7483