Re: Stan Shebs is leaving Cygnus

[Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu at cup dot hp dot com>]

Hi Stan,

I'm terribly sorry to hear this! I was just thinking that you guys at Cygnus
must be really lucky with RedHat these days, given the high stock price it has.
However it appears it's not quite true :-(.

I wish you best of luck in your new enterprise!

Greetings and Merry Christmas,
Ovidiu

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:51:15 -0800, Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com> wrote:

> Yes, I'm resigning from Cygnus; my last day in the office is tomorrow,
> 1999-12-23. Yes, this is rather sudden!  The reasons are a little
> complicated and I don't want to "overshare" :-), so suffice it to say
> that my personal stock situation makes it advisable for me not to be a
> Cygnus employee when the Red Hat merger is completed.
> 
> The timing is somewhat unfortunate, because I'm still completely
> enthusiastic about Cygnus, Red Hat, GDB, GNU, etc, and our little
> community's future prospects look brighter than they ever have before.
> In fact, once my financial situation allows, I would very much like to
> go to work at Red Hat!
> 
> In the meantime, I intend to continue working on GDB and to continue
> maintaining parts of it, while spreading more of my tasks around to
> other people.  RMS has a steering committee proposal that he should be
> posting soon, and that will be a good first step in this direction.
> The committee can then decide whether it would prefer GDB to keep the
> status quo of a single maintainer coordinating sub-maintainers, or to
> be more anarchic with no single technical decisionmaker, a la GCC.  In
> any case, I'm still planning to serve on this committee.
> 
> My temporary mail address will be shebs@nabeng.com, at least until I
> pick a cool domain name for my new consulting business. :-) Also, from
> 25 Dec to 8 Jan, I'm going to be savoring margaritas in the tropics,
> and incommunicado during the entire time.  After that, however, I will
> be available for tools consulting and contract work.
> 
> 								Stan
>