RARE Memorabilia. Platinum Technology corporate logo jacket. Pre-9/11 NYC

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O.K., folks. Unless you are buying this jacket as a gift for Kim DotCom plan on tailoring.
It is an XXL. That being said, it is cotton so down sizing is straightforward.Go in knowing that you are going to have it tailored to get a good fit.
On the other hand this the real thing. And the logo is extremely rare.
This was a corporate reward piece from the famous (or infamous later on) Platinum Technology.software company.
Platinum is much beloved among computer geeks of 15, 20 years ago. The company made very good products, had great service, and proved in an extreme way that no good software deed goes unpunished.
Platinum made its mark with unique tools to monitor corporate data flows and to secure those resources across word processing environments, databases, and the associated ETL (extract, translate, load) tools. Good tuning. Great check lists to assure that security requirements for EU-600 and FIX Protocol were carried out effectively. Modern blunders such as we saw at Target and Kohls and Home Depot were simply impossible -- no one in Unix system management jobs had "root" control over assets.
Then Platinum became famous. It was bought for .5 billion by Computer Associates ("CA") in 2002. That acquisition is arguably in the Top Ten for infamous disasters of the computer software world. Banker decisions led to a generate-revenue company taking over the technical leader for overall data warehouse management -- wrecking the tech leader inside two years.
Carly Fiorino was not involved. And years before Elizabeth Holmes. Just so you know.
CA's people went and grabbed the top jobs. Everything. A corporate slaughter. Integration went over to CA treating the databases like they were any other software programs. The security check lists got trashed cuz they didn't generate revenue. Tuning with Platinum Tech tools got to be a matter of reducing resource use. That had never been the Platinum Tech approach.
Anyway... if you like wearing history, this is it.
If you really ought to be the person wearing this or giving it as a gift, you'd have it tailored anyway. The cuffs should be upgraded. The snap buttons are original "International Denim" and I know you can do better than that. Mine are from the Atlanta Olympics and my corporate host. Whatever you go for, you'll need seven of them. And yes, the sleeves are easy to replace. I went with soft leather elbow patches on water-resistant fabric with a cotton liner.
Make a great geek gift. Enjoy !!