Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!vector!nobody From: linimon@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: IBM Sells Rolm To Siemens AG Message-ID: Date: 14 Dec 88 21:02:00 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 13 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 202, message 4 In article you write: >From its beginning until 1984, Rolm could not run itself very well; now >IBM has washed its corporate hands. > >Patrick Townson To represent not my own, but the opinions of (several) ex-ROLMers: Rolm wasn't doing so badly until IBM starched all the collars. At that point many of the "good folks" departed. Mark Linimon Mizar, Inc. uucp: {convex, killer}!mizarvme!linimon disclaimer: not only not Mizar's opinion but also not necessarily my own.