| > Seeing Lynn B's posting about MRO* being sold reminded me
> that FXO in Franklin, MA (Quoth Bob Palmer at one conference,
> "Where's Franklin, Mass?")
The one I recall is that about 4 years ago at one of the DVN broadcasts (back
in the old days when they allowed people to call in line), someone from FXO
called and said he was from Franklin and Buzz Luttrell said "Franklin WHERE?"
I wouldn't be surprised if Bob Palmer said the same thing at one point.
> has been sold to Putnam investments.
For those who don't know, Putnam is a mutual fund company currently head-
quartered in downtown Boston. I'm surprised they are big enough to employ
1200 people in the data processing center alone.
> Putnam gets to keep the geese, too.
This is a huge site, one of the biggest Digital sites in New England in land
area.
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| Drats, darn! I kept hoping hope against hope that we'd move back there
8^) My husband's company, LTX Corp, was also looking at FXO and he was
hoping that they'd buy it and at least one of us would get the short
commute.
Heavy sigh...
Susan
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Sorry, Susan. (I hear it's just a 10 year lease--there's still hope!)
You shoulda been around when the SCO group was in the (now long
gone) WZ2 building--Flanders Road in Westboro, right over the
Cumberland Farms bakery, about where rt. 9 and 495 cross. It
was hard to concentrate on the days when they were baking
doughnuts. (And it was hard to wafer probe when a semi
went by on the Mass Pike, too.)
'Course, when we moved to FXO, I lived just over the Franklin border,
next to the Charles in Medway. If I got caught behind the schoolbuses
it took me all of 12 minutes to get to work.
E.
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