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To: Joanna Tsang who wrote (2304)	4/1/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: RoseCross	Read Replies (1) of 6021

Joanna- You said your friend was an engineer, but not in engineering; you mentioned she was in MIS. MIS, accounting, and other administrative departments are the most redundant when merging two companies, so that should be no big shock that it happened, especially since the NetGen folks were very UNIX-centric like your friend, and the McAfee folks were NT-centric. We all know that the two companies were about the same size prior to the merger, so there were a lot of bodies to absorb. An employee who is managing one company's intranet WWW server and mail server is likely to have an exact opposite from the other side, and I think that is what happened in this case - sometimes I think that those decisions come down to job performance/personality evaluations, and sometimes even less (rumor has it that the last layoff I went through, I was the victim of a coin flip after three rounds of progressively harder cuts). I think you are probably right about where she ended up, too. <g>

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