Globix is dead, long live Globix

After selling off the final pieces of the hosting portion of their business, my former employer, Globix is dead. In reality, some small parts of the company probably still remain, but only in its reincarnated form as NEON. NEON is the name of the company that Globix merged with in the spring of my final year with the company. Over time, the hosting side of the business continued its atrophy and started to shed members of the management team that helped revive the company after its short run-in with bankruptcy court. Three who I worked closely with toward the end seem to have moved on nicely:

Peter Stevenson went on his merry way.

Jamie Holcombe has moved on to the Universal Service Administration.

Dan Ephraim is taking the world of business research by storm at Tier 1 Research.

In all, Globix was an interesting learning experience for me and I'm somewhat sad to see it go -- though really not too surprised. At one point the company had a strong position to do nicely in the Internet services world, but in the end it just took too long to execute decisions that could have made the difference. It could make for an interesting case study, maybe...

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