The last journey started in 1999 at a software start-up company Open Mind Systems and ended a month ago as part of Open Text. What happened between then and now is the stereotype story of the glory Internet hype (powered by a lot of VC money) followed by the crash (dot-com burst) and slow recovery to a substantive business (by being part of a larger company to use the distribution channels and global reach). I was Product Manager for an enterprise-aware web content management system best known under the name "Obtree". I had the pleasure to work with a highly motivated development team and create software that suck less. This thanks to an active community of users providing direct feedback to engineering. Conclusion: I learned how to make enterprise software and how not to manage a corporation.

The next journey is about to start. Again start-up like conditions and a bunch of good guys with bright ideas. Do you know how YellowPages look like in Web 2.0?

Posted by Cedric on Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10/31/2005 02:20:00 AM | Permalink