Naquada

Wow, I didn’t realise it but today was my, as far as I can remember it, anniversary of starting with the company, July 27th is the day I started at Ardent Software in High Wycombe, a small office where the DataStage team was pretty much two people and a sales guy. We were the bunch in the corner sucking all the profits out of the database team to stay afloat. The loons in the corner that had the weird idea that data integration was a good idea..

..And today I now work for IBM, and the whole business is wanting Data Integration, and its now the integration team pumping huge profits back into the business.

Along the way we’ve come up with some great (and no so great) products.. the new Google Video Search seems to be powered by the product we produced a few years back.. Media360.. allowing you to search video for words phrases, very cool and far too ahead of its time!! So now not only can you search the web for useless information, you can search hours of video for it too..

I mean.. how can you survive without knowing on the 6th January 2005 at 11:49 and 30 seconds, a contestant on the American ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ said ‘Yes, all my students thought that I should go on “millionaire” because I know a lot of useless information’.. Technology huh??

So what does the future hold.. Will I be posting in a years time saying I’m still here.. starting my ninth year? Will I be posting on the merits of working for Google or Yahoo??? Who knows…