Re: Where is Ron Gula? (was "Changes in IDS Companies?")

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At 04:41 PM 11/15/2002 +0000, Kevin Jones wrote:
>In-Reply-To: <010a01c273c3$da243c60$0200a8c0@MASTER>

And I was correct. 8) As you can see from Ron's response over the weekend, he left Enterasys in September, not June. ;)

>There hasn't been any mention of him on the Dragon list (or post from him)
>in many months...

As Ron also stated in his weekend response:

"I also have a lot of confidence in the team working on Dragon now."

And it's well he should, since he asked most of us to come onboard and work to make Dragon a success. ;)

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Ron is one of my closest friends. I would much rather be working with him under the Dragon flag, but paraphrasing Marcus Ranum's post recently, there's only so many times you can try to illuminate the corporate "suits" about IDS before your brain ruptures. It's not Ron's fault they were bred, born, raised, and dwell in clueon-free atmospheres.

Dragon, in and of itself, was, is, and continues to be the result of the efforts the team Ron assembled. We are all still there working on it.

To answer the FUD we've been hearing thorough the grapevine, yeah, it's safe to say we have little love for our corporate parent, but Dragon is in our DNA now (thanks Ron! argh!), and those conditions are not uncommon in the acquisition world - a team of what Stan Lee (Marvel Comics) used to call "Titanic True Believers" in a struggle against the ordinary, staid, uninspired corporate Borg.

That said, Dragon will be just fine. The team that created it and continues to improve it will be just fine (we're never satisfied with it ;) - angst notwithstanding
(this too shall pass) - and Ron will be just fine. Knowing him as I do, I am certain Tenable Network Security will be a success.

>Curious,
>
>Kevin Jones

Speaking as a private citizen,

Randy

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