Re: Bye Bye Jonathan!
Jonathan Leffler wrote in message <69mohb$jf2@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... >>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. >> Sorry, that's "tragedy"--my spell checker is missing! >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. > Hey, if you need a reference, let me know. :-) >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... > > Well, change is always a good thing I guess. Informix is the big loser on this one, but surely they must know it. As far as Ozy, well, I think your work will stick around for quite a while. Maybe time to write another book... Best wishes for your success! Hey, I just saw a flying pig... :-) Tim