I interviewed at MSDW a couple of times. Their investment in Perl is huge. They were going to buy Damian outright (pay the whole 60K) but yet another society told them to back off.

However, all my interaction with MSDW was up at 47th street. I didn't even know they had anything in the WTC. I also interviewed with Lehman Brothers/AMEX and they are definitely in WTC. .

I think Phil is best known for writing the IBM message queue Perl interface.