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In wwa.support Max Kohn <mik@wwa.com> wrote:
> On 13 Sep 1998, JJ wrote:

>> Date: 13 Sep 1998 16:38:06 GMT
>> From: JJ <jjacobus@ponyx.com>
>> Newsgroups: wwa.support, wwa.general, wwa.announce, wwa.www, chi.internet
>> Subject: Re: Verio Chicago downsizes technical staff [feel the love]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> rivet <root@verio.net> wrote in article <35fbecd5.3924372@news.wwa.com>...
>> > On 13 Sep 1998 15:15:03 GMT, "JJ" <jjacobus@ponyx.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > >From what I I've been able to gather here is the casualty list:
>> > >
>> > >	Jackson Brunsting
>> > >	Dan Cross
>> > >	Kevin Hill
>> > >	Rich Nuttle
>> > >	David Ressman
>> > >	William Rockwood
>> > >	Eric Seale
>> > >	Kim Scarborough
>> > >
>> > >There are a couple more high-profile resignations to come.
>> > 
>> > it was really cute when one of people mentioned above asked for ten
>> > dollars so he could take his belongings home in a cab and some
>> > asshole replied, "well we really didn't budget for that."
>> > 
>> > i would have given him money myself but my wallet is empty.
>> > 
>> 
>> That's pretty funny. Well, with as much money as Verio is losing, you got
>> to watch every penny.
>> 

> Why would they buy out WWA if they were losing money? Why would a company
> losing money make a purchase of that magnitude?  Doesn't make sense. 

The downsizing was actually to be expected. To make mergers and
acquistions more successful, parent companies will remove redundant
operations. Verio obviously feels that its service staff is being
duplicated by WWA's. I expect that management downsizing will be coming.
If Dave Vrona felt that WWA would be able to keep its individual character
when he sold to Verio, he was quite mistaken.