By now, we've all seen the news reports indicating that Morgan Stanley Dean Witter was one of the principal tenants of what was, until this morning, the World Trade Center. What many may not know is that Phil Moore of MSDW gave a memorable keynote at OSCon in July, indicating that among other things, perl is the "secret" of the securities industry, that everyone uses and nobody (until recently) admits to, and that MSDW has an enormous number of perl programmers in its employ. IIRC, the number he stated was 1800, and I believe that would make them the largest single employer of perl programmers worldwide.

That said, what has anyone heard about Phil and his colleagues? Were any/many of them housed in the WTC, and if so, are they okay? What of anyone else in the community who work in lower Manhattan (NY.pm members, etc)?

Spud Zeppelin * spud@spudzeppelin.com