As Microsoft expands in Cambridge it is running into resistance and litigation from existing firms.
“InterSystems, a longtime occupant in the building at One Memorial Drive in the shadow of MIT, maintains that it, and not Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), has rights to space in the building that Microsoft is planning to use. Also galling to InterSystems is that Microsoft is planning to install a large sign on the outside of the building.
We want to stay in our building," InterSystems' Paul Grabscheid, vice president of strategic planning, told the Boston Globe. "It's very much our home. The idea of coming to work every day under a Microsoft sign is not so appealing to us." InterSystems was founded in 1978 by Phillip "Terry" Ragon and has grown rapidly in recent years and has 22 worldwide offices and assets of more than $220 million.
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