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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: cae780 has been permanently shutdown
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Date: 31 Mar 88 23:23:29 GMT
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>The machine cae780 has been shutdown without any advance warning.  It will
>not be coming back up.

I find it interesting (and not especially coincidental) that at almost the
exact moment this happened, CAE Systems was sold to Mentor Graphics. What
Tek bought a few years ago (and overpaid for, it seems) for $75 Million
got unloaded to a competitor for $5Mil. Tek basically sold CAE for scrap.

Too bad. I worked at CAE for a while. Lots of neat people. Good product. I'm
sorry to see it end this way. From what I can tell, most of the old line CAE
people saw something coming and many got out. Hope the rest didn't get
caught completely unaware.

Just goes to show. A good product isn't always enough. Neither are good
people. Sometimes nothing is enough.

Rest in Peace, CAE. Rest in Peace.