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Interesting day. Got up early to fight beltway traffic into Virginia to go to a software sales pitch. Not something we'd ordinarily do, but this pitch was given at the Ritz-Carlton in Tyson's Corner, and it included breakfast. Eggs benedict, crepes, potato patties, sausage, bacon, sweet rolls, fruit, juice, coffee. Pretty good spread, but I'm still not sure it was worth the worst of the morning rush hour traffic.
The software, from an outfit called Ascential, was aimed at people who have to deal with millions of transactions per day--or even per hour. It allows you to spread the workload over clusters of machines. Pretty neat stuff, to be sure, if a ways out of our league. What was particularly helpful about the morning was that one of Judy's consulting clients was also there, and they got in some useful comparison of notes.
Mmm, she also got a closer look at the state of my slacks, and hauled me over to the mall to get some more. Have to admit, it was way beyond time.
The software, from an outfit called Ascential, was aimed at people who have to deal with millions of transactions per day--or even per hour. It allows you to spread the workload over clusters of machines. Pretty neat stuff, to be sure, if a ways out of our league. What was particularly helpful about the morning was that one of Judy's consulting clients was also there, and they got in some useful comparison of notes.
Mmm, she also got a closer look at the state of my slacks, and hauled me over to the mall to get some more. Have to admit, it was way beyond time.