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As of this coming Monday, I will officially be a member of a brand new company named Red Pill Development, which (for the time being) consists entirely of the following individuals:
Although pursuing this amazing new opportunity means my employment at GBS officially comes to an end, Red Pill will continue to work quite closely with GBS. We therefore have the good fortune of being able to explore this uncharted territory without burning bridges behind us. Additional metaphors for this arrangement can be provided upon request, but are likely to be similarily vague.
As is the precise nature of what Red Pill has up its sleeves, for that matter. Suffice it to say, this is the most excited I've been about a professional opportunity since... well, ever. There may well come a point in time where all five of us decide we want to say more. Until then...
Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth: there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
- Spoon Boy, The Matrix
Sometimes I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Alice Kingsley, Alice in Wonderland
If they ever tell my story, let them say I walked with giants.
- Odysseus, Troy
As of this coming Monday, I will officially be a member of a brand new company named Red Pill Development, which (for the time being) consists entirely of the following individuals:
- Peter Presnell, IBM Champion 2012, architect of the .Domino framework on OpenNTF, globally recognized presenter & thought-leader, former head of quality engineering for GBS
- Keith Strickland, creator of the XBlog project on OpenNTF, recognized expert on Dojo and XPages
- Jennifer Meade, globally recognized presenter & thought-leader, former Chief Technology Officer for GBS, winner of countless Lotus Awards with 3 different IBM partners
- Nathan T. Freeman, IBM Champion 2012, co-founder & Director Emeritus of OpenNTF, globally recognized presenter & thought-leader, former Vice-President of R&D for GBS
- Tim Tripcony, IBM Champion 2012, co-author of the XPages Extension Library book, globally recognized presenter & thought-leader, author & inventor of numerous OpenNTF projects
Red Pill is a company dedicated to the modernization of custom Lotus Notes applications for the enterprise. What does that mean? Simply that our mission is to apply modern software principles to the millions of production Notes applications deployed across the world.
Although pursuing this amazing new opportunity means my employment at GBS officially comes to an end, Red Pill will continue to work quite closely with GBS. We therefore have the good fortune of being able to explore this uncharted territory without burning bridges behind us. Additional metaphors for this arrangement can be provided upon request, but are likely to be similarily vague.
As is the precise nature of what Red Pill has up its sleeves, for that matter. Suffice it to say, this is the most excited I've been about a professional opportunity since... well, ever. There may well come a point in time where all five of us decide we want to say more. Until then...
You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth.
- Morpheus, The Matrix
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Posted by Chris Whisonant At 07:44:51 AM On 10/15/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Per Henrik Lausten At 03:02:15 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Stephan H. Wissel At 04:22:37 AM On 10/15/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Paul Hannan At 05:32:19 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Philippe Riand At 10:24:41 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Best of luck!
Posted by ChrisC At 04:46:45 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Roy Rumaner At 12:19:16 PM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Devin Olson At 06:30:25 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Finn L. Knudsen At 05:44:58 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
I do hope, though, that you have a crystal-clear boss (i.e. 51% of the company boss). I have seen too many startups-of-equal-partners end in tears and bickering.
And don't forget that Neo woke up coughing and spluttering from within a bathtub of goo.
Posted by Andrew Magerman At 03:45:49 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Paul Della-Nebbia At 10:04:42 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Tim Tripcony At 01:37:56 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy At 06:52:34 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Niklas Heidloff At 04:59:04 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Lars Berntrop-Bos At 05:29:03 AM On 10/15/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Frank van der Linden At 03:27:02 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Carl At 11:38:08 AM On 10/15/2012 | - Website - |
"You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
See you in Wonderland for sure!
Posted by Theo Heselmans At 01:28:02 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Thimo Jansen At 04:33:30 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Thomas Adrian At 03:38:58 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Howard Greenberg At 09:42:40 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
The mission sounds interesting. Looking forward to the rabbits you're gonna pull out of your sleeve(s).
Posted by Mark Leusink At 04:23:39 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Paul Withers At 03:53:13 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
That's a good team you have in place.
Dan
Posted by Dan Soares At 09:27:48 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Good luck with Red Pill! Love the name.
Posted by Dan Huddlestun At 09:33:18 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |
Posted by Keith Brooks At 10:51:55 AM On 10/12/2012 | - Website - |