[Nottingham] Almost on topic, pipex for sale

[Rennacker Ed]

graeme at graemef.net wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 09:51 +0000, Rennacker Ed wrote:
>   
>> Pipex moved its main 123-reg/Webfusion works during the last 2 months 
>> closing thier Beeston office 09 March, to the new tech park near 
>> terminal 5 (Stockley, I think) . Fasthosts is next door as are several 
>> tech firms. They still have a data center in Leeds and near Manchester. 
>> Pipex DSL is still in Stoke Mandeville
>>     
>
> I sent an offlist reply to Matthew already, but to clarify (and
> apologies if it seems like I'm correcting for the sake of it):
>
>   
No, not at all, I appreciate the details. (and we make our best guess)
> Technical operations ceased in Nottingham in October 2004. Hosted and
> colocated systems were moved to Manchester, Leeds and Harbour Exchange.
> Development, sales, marketing and finance stayed in Nottingham until a
> couple of weeks ago.
>
> What's happened to the building is anybody's guess, however we were
> looking before I left in Feb '06 to put the building back to its'
> original state by removing generators, UPS, power distribution, fire
> suppression & cooling as the landlord wanted it doing. Whether that
> takes place now I won't know, unless Ovid or colleagues pipe up.
>
> As for datacentres, Pipex have their major ones in:
>
> Leeds (just outside the city)
> Manchester (Bank Chambers, off Portland Street in the city)
> Harbour Exchange Square (Docklands)
>
> Pipex DSL is administratively based in Welwyn Garden City (unless that's
> changed, but I don't believe it has); Stoke Mandeville is the ex-Nildram
> office and is now the head office for the group. Engineering is pretty
> much based in Oxford, along with several operational bits of the
> business services unit.
>
> Most of this is available here:
> http://pipexgroup.com//pg.asp?officelocation
>
> And it's Rackspace across the car park, not Fasthosts. Unless Gloucester
> has moved to Heathrow this week ;-)
>
> G
>
>   
LOL, I remember it being said, "one of our competitors is across the car 
park." And I really couldn't wrap my head around 123-reg being a 
competitor of Rackspace (or vice versa, so I musta filed it as Fasthosts.)
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