Yesterday I was in Frankfurt attending the German Systems Engineering kick off meeting. Klaus Hank (our German GSE Director) kicked off the meeting in which he said... Well I am not sure what he said as it was in German, but I am sure it was good. I followed Klaus and talked to the group about our success in the first half of the year and the plans for the second half, including early indications of our goals and intentions for FY08. I believe the chat was well received. At least the mood was good with the group and there seemed to be a general excitement about our future.

Germany was the first stop on a two city trip this week. Now I am in London for a few days of FY08 growth and strategy meetings. This is the start of a four week period in which I will be hitting 14 cities. For those playing along at home, the order is; Frankfurt, London, Denver, Paris, Madrid, Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Milan, Moscow, Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Dubai. The good news is that on my stop in Denver for a few AIM, CEC and Customer Engineering meetings, I will be taking a week off to do some skiing in Vail.

Peter Reiser also turned me on to a pretty cool new web 2.0 widget. The company is Plazes and it is a simple web widget that allows you to share your physical location and locate others. It is pretty cool and has all kinds of potential for future mashups. You can see it on the right side of my blog. It tracks your, or in this case, my current location around the world. So if you are really, and I mean really, board you can follow my 14 city tour over the coming weeks.

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