FROM THE MOUTHPIECE OF THE JUNTA

[dmr@plan9.att.com dmr@plan9.att.com]

I sent a longer, duller piece on the AT&T split earlier
today to the wrong variant of the 9fans address
(so much for snarf).
This presentation would have played better if it had appeared
before McKie's.

But, even more briefly than my first try:  the research
part of AT&T Bell Labs will split as well into
No-name-yet Bell Labs and AT&T Laboratories, with
more people in the first than the second, and with
the first more involved with products and the second
with services.  There is no strong reason to believe
yet that our own group will be in the one rather than
the other, nor indeed to prefer one to the other,
though certainly people are conjugating the prospects
of both companies and the opportunities they offer.
It's too soon to say.

One observation, however: those who listened to the
very end of Bob Allen's press conference heard this:

  Q: What about McKie and Flandrena?

  A: Wasn't that in the written material?  They will
     be sent to Bellcore.


		Dennis