tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29127973.post6936754816655124976..comments2023-10-27T03:16:03.213-04:00Comments on Burgh Diaspora: Migration and Development in an Age of Growing Economic InequalityJim Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13078184665418828961noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29127973.post-76600007043388577922014-06-03T10:43:21.112-04:002014-06-03T10:43:21.112-04:00Speaking of Rochester + people develop, not places...Speaking of Rochester + people develop, not places, I've noticed this sort of thing over the years. It seems to originally come out of IBM locating in Rochester, MN. Then at one point they were going to consolidate some groups including their hard drive / storage group. <br /><br />Naturally most of the brains didn't want to leave. That's right, they desired 7 months of winter + farm culture in a regional town over a wonderful Mediterranean climate and a butt-ton of culture and other stuff. So some other companies opened up offices in Rochester to cherry pick these folks. <br /><br />30-40 years later - countless buyouts, mergers, moves, etc - and Rochester, MN still have storage companies with offices in town more or less because they need these people. Surely by now most of the original IBMers have retired and we're on a 2nd or 3rd generation of storage solutions engineers. <br /><br />It's an important cluster the city seems to bend over backward to ignore. Instead they're focused on Destination Medical Center, downtown and the UofM-Rochester. Basically just planning on pouring concrete and riding Eds and Meds.<br /><br />As the great Kurt Vonnegut wrote, so it goes.<br /><br />http://www.postbulletin.com/business/lsi-becomes-avago-impact-on-rochester-office-uncertain/article_049ffb9f-f4c3-51f8-a6a7-8e7dc2c65bf1.html<br /><br />Then in November 2006, Allentown, Penn.-based Agere Systems opened a 6,000-square-foot office at 3033 41st St. N.W. Agere hired a team of 10 local storage design engineers that formerly worked for Maxtor Corp.'s Rochester office. That office closed in 2006 when Maxtor was acquired by Seagate Technologies.Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08226595951053940544noreply@blogger.com