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> CSFB was always a big MS shop

Hey, it's not massively relevant to your story, but this cracked a smile for me.

CSFB was a big Sun shop, up to and past the time they mounted a "SunSet" initiative around 1998. Scott McNealy came and gave talks to the engineers.

In CSFP, the derivatives arm, where the quants worked, there was more of a push to get onto Excel, build a relationship with Microsoft, which included getting onto the "Cool" program which turned into .NET.




I think you know somewhat more about this than me ;-)

I just remember the win2k source code, the Exchange team, the mass rollout of win2k boxes, and the .NET beta of course, as you mentioned.


Interesting, thanks.




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