free-wheeling pre-IT-as-a-utility days If IS&T didn't do that, it was because they'd stopped after, when I showed up in 1979, running a 370 mainframe and a Mul

free-wheeling pre-IT-as-a-utility days If IS&T didn't do that, it was because they'd stopped after, when I showed up in 1979, running a 370 mainframe and a Multics, the latter explicitly designed to run as a utility. Or while I was there, moving a lot of education to the Athena service (something that part of MIT eventually took over). Or, I think after I left in the early '90s, converting the university to run on SAP. The article and comments are quite explicit on what happened, new top dog comes in with a new vision, his most powerful direct reports sandbag the initiative while using it as an excuse to execute a massive purge. A story we've seen many times before in all sorts of contexts.