Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!eos!eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov From: eos!eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Re: Good Firms for Women Message-ID: <11684@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 5 Jul 88 17:54:28 GMT References:<11586@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 23 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu A helpful topic! Let me suggest one company not on the net, and badily in need of a Unix champion. The company is well known as it is the largest ($$s) firm founded by a woman in the Valley. That company is ASK Computer Systems. Sandy Kurtzig is no longer with the company, but it retains a lot of H-P flavor. They do MRP [Materials, Resources, Planning] software on H-P and other systems. They have been thinking about getting into the Unix market place but have been "detered by the unfriendliness of the system." It's won't initially be easy there. You have to fight the other H-P operating systems people as well as VMESS, etc. But they are seeking portability [you should have heard this one before...]. The company passed the $100M mark a few years back. It's sort of on the fence, I wonder how they survive, but I don't understand the business market. 8-) Background: I know about the company because my 'ex-' used to work there as a technical writer. --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,ncar,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."