> You were at Now? What a great company. Now-Up-To-Date was the > best group calendar our company ever used. And Boomerang > hasn't seen it's match since!
It was a great company. I was international sales manager there, then after it was acquired by Qualcomm, went over and did my thing there. Sadly, a few years later Qualcomm sold it all off to a "new" Now Software. They never got a successor out the door and ended up closing earlier this year. The laid back Portland culture didn't quite mesh with Qualcomm. There was a time during a mass staff phone conference (team in San Diego, team in Portland) on a Friday when a tech writer came into the room announcing "Oh yeah, the keg is here!", while rolling in the Beer Bash Friday keg (a forbidden practice at qualcomm). A VP on the other end said "what was that?" Then a marketing guy in Portland said "Yeah, the *cake* is here - its Greg's birthday!" So the SD team sang Greg a Happy Birthday song as we lined up with our plastic cups... What is funny is the very last release of Now Utilities actually came from my own budget. We had a bunch of fixes made to placate our Japanese friends who sold NU-J. Qualcomm sat on the English version for over a year until they finally got around to releasing it to the world. I was long gone at that point. Now was quite close to Apple back then. Good times indeed. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Mirye Software Publishing http://www.mirye.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
