Now before you get all jumpy, let's try to remember this was when Lotus 1-2-3 was king of the hill, bless Iris Asociates.
So when Lotus Notes 1.0/2.0 came out, sure people wanted to try it. But it was a failure of a flat database at first. BUT it did one thing really well.
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I was blown away, here was a program I was dreaming about, one which could talk to ther people in the building or around the world. It was beautiful and then came V3.3 which really got to working the way it should.
I immediately decided being a consultant would suck if I didn't learn everything about this great product. I tried many times to get a job with Lotus/Iris but they wouldn't answer my pleas to let me into the sacred sanctum.
Back when Ray Ozzie was a genius, well he still is relative to many people, and Microsoft and IBM were still doing DOS and supposedly doing OS/2 I thought I could get in there, but no dice. Oddly enough years later Groove wouldn't hire me either, evidently Floridians just don't work for Ozzie and his staff. But I did make it to Lotus, MANY years later.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
History first?
Well I am not one to dwell on it, but my career started when Windows 2.0 came out.
Ah the funny little program which came with a mouse and MS paint program.
What do you do with it? Nothing, until windows 3.0.
But this is not about Windows.
This is about the early days of the IT world when anyone who knew how to turn a computer on was a consultant(circa 1989-1990). Did well, not even 21 and making 40K a year which was a great deal to me as my buddies who followed through on our accounting degrees barely made 30K.
I remember the first 486 when it came in. It dropped processing time to 8 hours overnight from almost 20 on a 386. Yes science advanced so fast. Now we measure the change in seconds or minutes. Maybe my smartphone in hours, even that is better than my old 486.
Ah the funny little program which came with a mouse and MS paint program.
What do you do with it? Nothing, until windows 3.0.
But this is not about Windows.
This is about the early days of the IT world when anyone who knew how to turn a computer on was a consultant(circa 1989-1990). Did well, not even 21 and making 40K a year which was a great deal to me as my buddies who followed through on our accounting degrees barely made 30K.
I remember the first 486 when it came in. It dropped processing time to 8 hours overnight from almost 20 on a 386. Yes science advanced so fast. Now we measure the change in seconds or minutes. Maybe my smartphone in hours, even that is better than my old 486.
In the beginning
like many others it was so simple, you want a new job, you find a new job.
But that was before 9/11.
Since then it has been a up and down ride.
Being an entrepreneur has its advantages.
Started a company, found a line of business, started making money.
Just as we were going to go big in the 2nd year(looking at $3 millionin sales) the supplier dropped us.
Damn if we weren't dong 2-3% of their total sales in $$ but did they care? nope.
Once again proving working for yourself is the best way to work.
But that was before 9/11.
Since then it has been a up and down ride.
Being an entrepreneur has its advantages.
Started a company, found a line of business, started making money.
Just as we were going to go big in the 2nd year(looking at $3 millionin sales) the supplier dropped us.
Damn if we weren't dong 2-3% of their total sales in $$ but did they care? nope.
Once again proving working for yourself is the best way to work.
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