Nice Christmas

Good year-end here at work. They won’t let me name names because that will screw up the carefully-crafted press releases for the new year, but in these dying days of 2003: First, we signed and launched a supply-chain deployment at a big home-hardware company down East. Plus, even better, we signed up a partnership with a really really interesting solution-provider focusing on the the US Feds — smart people. Plus, best of all, we’ve nailed down an OEM-flavored deal with a terrific procurement-management company and our guys are working on like dozens of their existing customers and prospects — that’s a fiendishly competitive space and bringing a better user interface to market is going to work out very nicely for us and them. There’s never been an easy software startup, but when the wheels are gripping, it’s pretty damn exciting.