Mechanicsburg schmanicsburg! Sun Microsystems Inc has the real thing: in the days of the great (well that was how he saw himself) J Edgar Hoover, the man Lyndon Johnson preferred to have inside the tent p*ssing out, G-men with a black mark against their names were posted to cool their heels and their pistols in Butte, Montana: later IBM Corp found that the offer of a transfer to the gruesomely-named Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania was enough to persuade surplus employees in the sunbelt to apply for voluntary redundancy, but now Sun Microsystems Inc has opened a training centre in – Siberia, so if anyone in Mountain View starts to get a bit uppity, there’s the prospect of a one-way ticket to a teaching post in Novosibirsk, Siberia.
