Re: Bye Bye Jonathan!
In article <69mohb$jf2@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Jonathan Leffler <johnl@informix.com> writes >>From: "Tim Schaefer" <tschaefe@mindspring.com> >>Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 22:33:24 -0500 >>X-Informix-List-Id: <news.47573> >> >>All I can say is this is a f***ing tradgedy. >> >>I am sorry to see you leave Informix, Jonathan. >> >>At any rate, best of success to you in your new endeavours. I hope >>whoever snaps you up realizes the value of who you are and what you >>contributed to Informix. As far as I'm concerned it ain't Informix >>anymore without you. >> >>Sincerely, there ain't no other way to say it, >> >>Thanks! > >Tim, > >I appreciate your concern, and your thanks. > >Lest there be any misunderstanding, I am leaving Informix of my own >volition, and (as far as I know) on good terms with all here. > >Here's a portion of the message I sent to the people I said GoodBye >to internally... > >As you'll see, I'll be out of touch for a couple of weeks (holiday >and getting myself slightly settled in my new job), but I'll be back. > >You don't get rid of me that easily... > HURRAH!!!!!! >Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:10:23 -0800 >From: johnl@informix.com (Jonathan Leffler) >Subject: The only constant is change! > >The time has come, the Walrus said, >To talk of many things. >Of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, >Of cabbages, and kings. >Of why the sea is boiling hot, >And whether pigs have wings. > > (Lewis Carroll, 'Through the Looking Glass') > >After seven enjoyable years working for Informix (and eleven and a half >years working with Informix products), I've decided to move on. My last >day at Informix will be Friday 16th January 1998. > >I'm going to work for Visa International in Foster City, CA, working on >terabyte size ODS, XPS and IUS databases, so I'm not leaving Informix >behind completely. > >For those who wish to remain in touch with me, my email address at Visa >will probably be jleffler@visa.com, but I also have an email redirector OK, I'll update the FAQ... >account j.leffler@acm.org which will always forward email to whereever I've >currently set it to send it. There may be a hiatus on my email activity >until the end of January; don't write me off as uncontactable until >February. I will probably continue to correspond on the >comp.databases.informix news group, and in the short term at least will Glad you deceided to stay [replaces battleaxe on wall and think "we'll guess I won't have to try gentle persuasion"...] >continue to look after DBD::Informix -- the Perl interface to Informix. > >I wish you all the best... > >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <farewell.h> > > OZYMANDIAS > >I met a traveller from an antique land >Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone >Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, >Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, >And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, >Tell that its sculptor well those passions read >Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, >The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; >And on the pedestal these words appear: >My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: >Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" >Nothing beside remains. Round the decay >Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare >The lone and level sands stretch far away. > > Percy Bysshe Shelley > >-- Read into that what you will... > > -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care