[ale] Monitor repair in North Atlanta

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:16 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:04 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Someone in upper management cleaned out the bank and
> > skipped the country
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> I'm not sure that the statement above is true.  MUS was owned by Darrin
> Sherill.   He sold his organization to my company named Computone.
> Computone was in dire straits when they bought MUS.  Neither exist
> today.  I think that Darrin knew the issues of support and saw that his
> contracts were drying up.  After he sold things went downhill.  Many
> customers did not renew.  They also saw their SCO support dry up.  Makes
> sense to me.  Computone was like a parasite that fed on MUS to try and
> stay afloat but it was never successful.  Eventually it died and I am
> now enjoying some of the spoils in my office.  Nice furniture, test
> equipment, etc.

Cool!
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> Someone in upper management of CTONE did clean CTONE out.  He never made
> it out of the country.  He is now in jail.

As always, my info on business scuttlebutt comes through some sort of
bulls**t filtering process.
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> If you want the story of MUS and/or CTONE you need to ask either Louie
> Zamora or Me.  We could possibly write a book and even produce a movie
> on the subject.

"A View from the Septic Tank or Life as SCO Tech Support"
"Make it or Take it - A CFO Perspective"


I'll stop there with suggested movie titles. :)
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