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Over the years many have asked the ever-popular question,
“Where do babies come from?” Well, without getting
into too much colorful detail here, let me just say that we’ve
come up with at least one obvious answer—SicolaMartin.
That’s right, in just the past two years, our repopulation
efforts have been a smashing success, creating an amazing
seven new Martians and one set of duplicates (aka twins).
Plus, we have two still “waiting to come aboard.”
In addition to our after-hours organic growth efforts, the
agency has added several new Martians to our staff, all to
support a strong wave of new business from both new and current
client partners. It seems that as our Texas weather heats
up, business in general is following the same scorching trend.
In fact, Austin was just named one of America’s hottest
job markets by Business 2.0 magazine. That’s a great
sign for all Austinites, as well as for our client partners
in Austin and around the world.
So enjoy this edition of EP, and don’t miss our youngest
Martians family photo below. Not surprisingly, this is the
same photo you see when you look in the dictionary under “herding
wild cats.”
Cheers,
Steve
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Whenever
you read about the high-definition format war that’s heating
up for the replacement to today’s DVD technology, you
inevitably get a comparison to the Beta vs. VHS debate of the
’80s. In that case, Sony’s Beta format, a better
product in both picture quality and even packaging, ultimately
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Imagine this scenario: A talented group of engineers comes up with
an idea, saying “Let’s build an industry-leading company by
creating innovative enterprise software that we’ll give away for
free!” Outside of a few dot-com-era venture capitalists, who
do you think would buy into this idea?
Try millions of people. Devoted programmers downloaded the products—in
this case, Java-based application server software—at no cost,
and in just a few years, the company, JBoss,
became the undisputed leader in the rapidly growing market of open-source
Java middleware. In fact, JBoss is highly profitable, generating
their revenues by selling training and support contracts to ensure
their software works flawlessly for their customers.
Apparently, others noticed as well. Amid months of takeover rumors
by companies including IBM and Oracle, JBoss
agreed on April 10, 2006 to be acquired by Red Hat, the leading
pioneer of open-source software, for $350 million.
A truly valuable idea, indeed.
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