From c280a351d4b75c357b6923e828a7709026fb0023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bdale Garbee Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 22:22:57 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] what is says --- bdale/blog/posts/Second_Retirement.mdwn | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bdale/blog/posts/Second_Retirement.mdwn diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Second_Retirement.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Second_Retirement.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa3f21e --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Second_Retirement.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +[[!tag tags/hp]] +[[!tag tags/hpe]] +[[!tag tags/rockets]] + +At the end of August 2012, I announced my +[Early Retirement](http://gag.com/bdale/blog/posts/Early_Retirement.html) +from HP. Two years later, my friend and former boss Martin Fink +successfully recruited me to return to what later became +[Hewlett Packard Enterprise](http://hpe.com), as an +[HPE Fellow](http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hpe/hpe-information/hp-fellows.html) +working on open source strategy in his Office of the CTO. + +I'm proud of what I was was able to accomplish in the 25 months since then, +but recent efforts to "simplify" HPE actually made things complicated for +me. Between the announcement in late June that +[Martin intended to retire himself](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/06/HPE-Boosts-Momentum-with-Organizational--Improvements.html), +and the two major spin-merger announcements involving +[Enterprise Services](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/05/1260962-hewlett-packard-enterprise-announces-plans-for-tax-free-spin-off-and-merger-of-enterprise-services-business-with-csc.html) +and +[Software](https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/featured-article/2016/09/CEO-Meg-Whitman-on-HPEs-Plans-to-Spin-Off-Merge-Non-Core-Software-Assets-With-Micro-Focus.html)... well... + +The bottom line is that today, 30 September 2016, is my last day at HPE. + +My plan is to "return to retirement" and work on some fun projects with my wife +now that we are "empty nesters". I do intend to remain involved in the Free +Software and open hardware worlds, but whether that might eventually involve +further employment is something I'm going to try and avoid thinking about +for a while... + +There is a rocket launch scheduled nearby this weekend, after all! + -- 2.30.2