The Dallas Morning News is running a series on EDS, the company I worked at from 1970 until 1999. It was quite a ride. I am unable to read the article because I am not a subscriber, but this VIDEO will give some of the history.
My letter from Ross Perot says that there were 2,000 employees when I joined the company. There were around 140,000 employees when I retired. Except for today, those were the happiest days of my life.
UPDATE: I wrote to the author of this series on EDS and told him that I was retired from EDS and now lived in Panama. I asked if he could provide me the articles. He has given me the URLS to the articles and I will try to post them after tomorrow’s article runs.
The tale of EDS as a firm that inspired the employees to a degree seldom seen is worth retelling. The early EDS folks were really committed.
In retrospect, it probably wasn’t a very classy thing to do, but there were other, perhaps more cold-blooded, individuals (like me) who saw the early EDS as the best source of on the job training back in the days when IT was still “Data Processing”.
Once I got that training, me fui con mi música para otro lado, I took my show on the road.
Lots of good soldiers in the EDS army for sure. Rules to fit the rest of our country that we may have lost forever. I liked it.
How crazy it must have been to watch it grow from a large company to a mega company like that!