Wednesday May 17, 2006 
People who love sausages and software should never watch either being made
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David Lee Todd, Unknown Product Manager People who love sausages and software should never watch either being made |
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Diary of a startup
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General
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Java CAPS
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Open Source
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Product Management
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SeeBeyond
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Solaris
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StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
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Who am I?
Wednesday May 17, 2006 Today was the first day of Horizons, the Java CAPS (former SeeBeyond) users' conference, being held in conjunction with JavaOne. It was hosted by our Fearless Leader, Mark Bauhaus, and although it seems a little corny to say, I was actually quite thrilled and astonished that El Lider Ultimo, Jonathan Schwartz, actually dropped by to say a few words. I was struck by how much of a community already exists among the Java CAPS users. Jim Demetriades, the former CEO of SeeBeyond, did a good job of making the user base, about 2000 organizations, feel like family. Hanging out in the breakout sessions, it was great to see our users give their accounts of their experiences, both good and bad, in using our products. The users in the audience were quite active in asking questions of the user-presenters about the techniques they used to achieve successful implementations. There was definitely a collegial atmosphere. As we go forward with building an online community for the products, I hope we can build on this community feeling that already exists. It may be harder to do as we add more and more users, but we'll give it our best shot. Posted by davidleetodd ( May 17 2006, 11:41:08 PM PDT ) Permalink |
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