Changing jobs is never easy. When I joined seven and a half years ago Lotus it was a unique and special place to work. It was fun, interesting, at times challenging and one where I looked forward to going to work on a monday morning. Lotus then suffered the usual ignominy that small dynamic organisations undergo when taken over by bigger ones than aren't, the life was squeezed out it. Senior management gave us the usual platitudes that the essential spirit that was Lotus would be preserved even improved, but as was apparent early on they don't understand it's people that make companies, not products, buildings or spreadsheets and all that was good about the business slowly melted away. It's classic stuff covered in any number of business journals and books but it would seem senior management at IBM don't read very much! So I like many others have voted with their feet. It isn't about money, status, corporate religion, stock options, company cars of the size of the desk, it's about not having fun anymore. Plain and simple. I'll keep you posted about the new job...