Posted 5 November 1994
Dear Folks,
Writing to you from my new quarters in Cisco UK at Bedfont Lakes. Yesterday we shut down the old Tolworth office and moved everything here, into a separate little alcove of only Newport people.
In fact, this was a clumsy mistake, since in fact Newport UK will soon cease to be, and this separate arrangement only serves to irritate some of the Cisco personnel here. I will work with the facilities manager to get ourselves integrated into the building as soon as possible. The only thing different we need is the Novell LAN and PCs (Cisco is exclusively Macintosh-based), and that only for a short time, perhaps a couple weeks.
Meanwhile, I will be joining the product marketing team, and will be issued with an Apple PowerBook next week. On the other hand, I am still part of Newport Systems Solutions, and so don’t appear to be eligible for any of the other usual Cisco bennies, such as fancy salary and petrol card for the company car. But I have a plan to demand parity with the other members of the team or, if I do a good job, jump ship and work with Cisco proper.
There is one significant benny for which I appear to be eligible, and that’s a threeday trip to Marbella, on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Cisco is flying out the entire Europe team with their partners to completely overrun the place for an extended weekend. How fortuitous that my partner is fluent in Spanish and lived in Madrid for several months last year. Ironically, I have no idea what I’ll do there, since I am not much interested in the usual beach resort variety of holiday activities (not that there will be much laying about in the sun, since in December it’s cold even in Spain). The only fly in this ointment is my schedule for December: I’m supposed to do a press tour in mid-month, and I leave for California three days after returning from Marbella. I don’t know yet whether I will be able to go. It will be an intense time whatever happens.
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