The following letter arrived in the e-mail of every grad student in the CS department:
Date: Fri, 5 May 95 15:24:20 PDT From: "Nina P. Parker ORACLE" <NPPARKER@us.oracle.com> Subject: WWW, YOU, & ORACLE To: dwallach@CS.Princeton.EDU
Dear Dan,
Wow! While surfing the net, I found your home page and immediately wanted to contact you. It's fantastic to see your creative efforts in making the Information Highway a reality. Here at Oracle, we seek to do the same. Oracle Corp., a $2 billion company with headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., is the world's leading supplier of information management software. Oracle develops and markets Oracle Media Server and the Oracle7 and Oracle Rdb families of software products for database management; Developer/2000 and Designer/2000, tools for enterprise-wide, client/server application development; and Oracle Cooperative Applications, packaged client/server solutions for accounting, manufacturing, distribution, human resources and project control. Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top devices, PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers. The company offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services in more that 90 countries around the world. Oracle's Worldwide Web address is (URL) http://www.oracle.com/ if you are interested in more information.
WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO SEND A CURRENT COPY OF YOUR RESUME TO ORACLE RECRUITING at the e-mail address schedule@us.oracle.com or by US Mail to:
Oracle Corporation
500 Oracle Parkway
Box 659501
Redwood Shores, CA 94065
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
* Nina P. Parker
* Oracle University Recruiting
* Phone: (415) 506 8669
Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 22:19:17 -0400
From: Dan Wallach <dwallach>
Subject: WWW, YOU, & PRINCETON
To: "Nina P. Parker ORACLE" <NPPARKER@us.oracle.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 05 May 1995 15:24:20 PDT.
Dear Nina,
Wow! While reading my e-mail, I found your form-letter and immediately wanted to contact you. It's amusing to see your untraditional efforts in making Oracle's university recuiting a reality. Here at Princeton, we seek to do better. The Princeton CS graduate community, a non-profit entity in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world's leading research institutions. Our department developes a wide variety of networking and operating systems enhancements as well as an extensive family of theoretical foundations for our field. Princeton grad students publish in small workshops and huge conferences, as well as take summer internship positions with various industrial concerns. Princeton CS's Worldwide Web address is (URL) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/ if you are interested in more information.
WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO SEND LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, EITHER TO SUPPORT GRAD STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS OR UNDERWRITE A WEEKLY BEER BUST. You can send cash or checks by US Mail to:
Dan Wallach
CS Department
Princeton University
35 Olden St.
Princeton, NJ 08544
I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards,
* Dan Wallach
* Princeton CS Researcher
* Phone: (609) 258 1798