 According to Varian, this demand "rocked the whole company", which had invested so heavily in TSS.However, because the site was so critical, IBM complied.Varian and others speculate that this chain of events could have been "engineered" by Rasmussen, as a "subterfuge" to motivate IBM's continued funding CSC's work on the "counter-strategic" CP/CMS, which he "was told several times to kill".