corporate serial killers

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Well, I see this has really pushed Brian's buttons. At the risk of
winding him up even more...

Guess which former member of the board of Halliburton is the current VP?
Guess which company received major contracts to drill for oil in Iraq
soon after the invasion of 2003?

Halliburton was very far-sighted, at least as far as networking goes.
They got a class A IP address, 34.0.0.0 to be exact. Not just anybody
got a class A address. There were only 126 of them to be had and they
sold out long ago. You can see from the addresses which were assigned
who was clever and got in line early: General Electric 3.0.0.0, U.S.
Army 6.0.0.0, IBM 9.0.0.0, Intel 11.0.0.0, AT&T 12.0.0.0, Xerox
13.0.0.0, Hewlett-Packard 15.0.0.0, Digital Equipment Corp 16.0.0.0
(anybody remember DEC? they used to build mainframes, were later bought
out by Compaq which also had a class A address; Compaq was bought out by
HP--which now therefore has three class A addresses), Apple 17.0.0.0,
MIT 18.0.0.0, and so on. Boeing 55.0.0.0, U.S. Postal Service 56.0.0.0.
Interstingly, chemical & pharmaceutical companies cottoned on very
early: duPont, Merck, Eli Lily.

Well, enough piffle.