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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23/12/2014, at 10:59 pm, Graeme Allen <<a href="mailto:gallen@mytelecom.com.au" class="">gallen@mytelecom.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Yep, add Cobol and name your own price :-)<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 December 2014 20:58:10 GMT+11:00, Matt Palmer <<a href="mailto:mpalmer@hezmatt.org" class="">mpalmer@hezmatt.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:56:14PM +1100, Graeme Allen wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> At one time they used the word "Legacy" as a weapon against Nortel,<br class=""> Lucent, et al. The thing about empires is they rarely learn from history. <br class=""> What's a Novell certified engineer worth these days?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">To one of the three places still running a Novell network? Probably quite a<br class="">lot.<br class=""><br class="">- Matt<br class=""><br class=""></pre></blockquote></div><br class="">
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