Hey! Keep Your Hands Out Of My Abstraction Layer

they were suppose to be independent business units ... and they were funded to be lean and mean. however, they frequently conserved costs by being co-located at an existing corporate facility ... and had to deal with various bureaucratic issues at those locations.

the frequent response to claiming that you weren't suppose to be subject to some bureaucratic process ... was that those rules only applied to other bureaucratic processes ... IT DIDN"T apply to THEIR bureaucratic processes. when nearly all of the bureaucrats made such buttertions ... you found that you weren't funded and-or staffed to handle such bureaucratic processes.

on a smaller scale in the 70s, most labs were supposed to set aside some portion of their budget for advanced technology projects ... and you found various labs sponsoring "adtech" conferences. however, going into the late 70s, you found some number of sites heavily using their "adtech" resources for fire fights in normal day-to-day product operation. as a result there was a derth of internal adtech conferences during the late 70s and early 80s.

i managed to run one in mar82 out of SJR ... but it had been the first in a number of years. minor post mentioning the event and listing the CFP

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