Old friends, new connectsions

I was in Chicago traveling earlier this week at the Web Content 2008 conference which is focused on something called web content management. Basically that is the software that companies use to manage their websites. The Mark Logic software is also used manage content to the web and I was there checking it out and presenting our solution to the attendees.

While in Chicago I had the opportunity to see an old rugby player friend from college named John Jones. Not only did we have computer science classes together but we also played many a rugby game together. John now works in energy development creating wind farms and developing natural gas fields as well as other alternative energies.

One of our customer case studies I was going to present was McGraw-Hill Platts who produce energy information for traders and energy professionals. They produce daily news letters distributed as PDFs with information on various aspect of the energy market. Platts are planning to take their news letters and make them available through a new electronic portal created with MarkLogic Server as the platform. My friend John subscribes to a couple of the news letters that Platts produces. I had screen shots from the prototype of their application so I showed them to him and he was super excited to see the future of the news letters and all of the things it will enable him to do.

So wow, old friend and a new connection!