John Larkin wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote...

I watched the money-making portable test division in Phoenix
get trashed by the ****-heads in Massachusetts... now you know
_part_ of the source of my animosity toward Massa2****s ;-)

That's an amazing extension. Plenty of healthy Massachusetts
companies have been sucked dry by their out-of-state owners.
Obviously the ability to mis-manage a company from a distance
is not notably a Massachusetts sin, unless you're obsessed with
the Harvard Business School's modest influence on the issue.

It is sadly true that many of the old-line Rt 128 companies are
gone... DEC, Data General, GR, Sensitive Instruments, Clevite,
Transitron, probably others. Have others popped up to take their
place? Analog Devices, for sure.

We have scads of large wealthy "newer" high-tech companies
headquartered here, that you may not often hear of, like
Thermo Electron, Bruker, Summit Technology, EMC, etc., and
others you do know, with a substantial presence, like Agilent.

Many software and Internet companies are headquartered in MA,
like Peoplesoft, Novell, etc., and many others have a large
presence, like Sun, Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, etc.

We all know scores of top-tier biotech companies with their
headquarters in MA, who have massive high-tech employment here.


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Thanks,
- Win