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Article: Union Carbide network balances economy, growth.
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- Communications News
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- June 1, 1990
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UNION CARBIDE NETWORK BALANCES ECONOMY, GROWTH
In the 1980s, Union Carbide faced the same two-headed monster that menaced all U.S. industrials. The spectre of budget overstrain frowned down from the one head, the cold threat of obsolete technology from the other.
Union Carbide girded its loins and did what it took.
The Industrial Gases Division has distinguished itself with innovations in networking. Members of this Computer Services team, based in Danbury, Conn., have responded to the seemingly incompatible imperatives of cost and technology.
Bryce Morgan, manager of communications planning, wraps it up: "The network is seven times as ...