Re: Bye Bye Jonathan!

>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... 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 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 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...