They wanted in. Buying KeeGo gives them that. Allan Leggett, the president and CEO of Systech, figures it puts them at least a year ahead of the competition. A year isn't much time in most fields, but in the computer industry where things change every week, being a year ahead is a big jump. Well, whenever one company absorbs another, there are strains.
Some folks move up, some down.
Systech and KeeGo are very different companies. KeeGo's younger, flashier, heavily male. A number of the KeeGo guys aren't real popular with the Systech women. Human Resources has been dealing with that. But about a week ago, pin-ups appeared on the bulletin board and a number of women got raunchy messages on their electronic mail.