On this day in P1atter History...
1983 | Be1a recognizes a promise | New innovations are always on the horizon. |
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June 1985 | First Reference Database prototype unveiled | |
16-Sep 1985 | Wellesley office on Walnut Street opens. ChrisP joins SP as employee #3. | |
September 1991 | Norwood office opens. | |
December 1991 | Bela hires PhilH as consultant (for 6,000 pounds per month). Businesses, Phil says, are simply large in/out bins. "Something goes in the 'in' bin, something is done to it, and it is put in the 'out' bin." The brilliance of this is lost on just about everyone. | |
August 26, 1992 | PhilH and JanB emerge from a 2-day offsite meeting at the Dedham Hilton with WaltW and BelaH. In this meeting they were informed that WaltW and BelaH would be taking management roles in the day-to-day operations of the company. | |
December 1992 | WaltW fires PhilH. | |
Early 1993 | A diagram of the company strategy, in the shape of a cone, is distributed. | |
September 1994 | "Si1verP1atter Wor1d" debuts as one of the first thousand web sites. Success objective is to get 500 hits a week. | |
11-Jan 1994 | WaltW "invites" ChrisP to leave. | |
March 1995 | CGI2DXP Web gateway proposed to ET. It's insanity, they say. Too competitive to what we currently do. "Why would anyone want to use the web when they could be using PC SP1RS?" | |
June 1995 | Bela sees Si1verP1atter database being searched on a GUI UNIX web interface (CGI2DXP gateway) and has a vision. Suddenly, ET is behind the web. TimR and BillR are assigned to work on it on Fridays. | |
July 1995 | CGI2DXP renamed WebSP1RS. | |
September 1995 | Physicians' Home Page is launched integrating WebSP1RS with other web-based content. 300 customers by December. | |
May 1996 | Inquiry for European Zone | |
July 1996 | Announcement of CCPs | |
September 1996 | Inquiry for USA and CPL Zones | |
January 1997 | An Open Letter | |
May 1997 | Announcement of ERL 97 | |
May 1997 | DonnaL removed Donna's good-bye | |
? June 1997 | CCPs unofficially phased out | |
June 1997 | Announcement of Corpora (later Know1edgeCite) | |
June 1997 | Hong Kong office closed for historic "hand-over" | |
July 1997 | Norwood Seniority Chart published | |
August 1997 | RonA Named Pres., U.S. Zone | |
September 1997 | JonS stays | |
September 1997 | JohnD named CIO and VP of Organizational Effectiveness | |
September 1997 | JonLa named Director of MIS | |
November 1997 | Announcement of structural changes (ElaineR, JohnL removed) Elaine's good-bye John's good-bye | |
November 1997 | Announcement of 14 lay-offs | |
January 1998 | BrianE removed Good-bye from BrianE | |
January 1998 | RonA named CEO | |
February 1998 | Welcome Ralf and Roy | |
March 1998 | Gillian's good-bye | |
April 1998 | JohnD named COO | |
April 1998 | Announcement of 40 lay-offs, (25 on completion teams) Invitation to a meeting | |
April 1998 | AlanD named VP of TD | |
June 1998 | The birth of SecretPlatter | |
October 1998 | JohnD named President | |
?January 1999 | Know1edgeCite absorbed back into quantum singularity. | |
June 1999 | RonA "sabbatical-ed". | |
July 1999 | JohnD: no appropriate role good-bye from JohnD |
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