I arrived at London Heathrow airport on May 1st. I’m posting this first message of my European Spring tour on one day later due to lack of Internet access at my hotel. I am here to prepare for the start of our European tour for Developer Studio. Here at the office in Twyford, I am working with Jason Vokes to finish the preparations for the next two weeks of seminars and meetings with press, partners, and customers. Monday is May Day in Europe. It is a bank holiday in England. I spent the Monday getting caught up on sleep, reading some of “The DaVinci Code” by Dan Brown, and practicing some demos for the tour.
This week we have seminars in Stockholm (Thursday, May 4th, 9am at the Berns Conference Center) and Copenhagen (Friday, May 5th, 9am at the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel). I hope to see our good friends and community members this week and next.
Back in Scotts Valley there is lots of “DevCo” work going on. The leadership team continues work on the presentations and company information for the investors. The JBuilder R&D team is in the middle of a SCRUM Sprint getting ready for new preview demos for the JavaOne show at our booth (#220) in San Francisco May 16-19.
I will try to post a blog entry for each day on my tour (where I have Internet access), including the weekends where I get a few hours off for good behavior.
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:> there are a few Twyfords
shame I dont live near where you are. Nice to have you somewhere in the UK
Liz, that’ll be the Twyford between Reading and Maidenhead.
The rumour has it that in the late 1980s when small firms like Microsoft, Oracle and suchlike were looking for bases in the UK, they wanted somewhere within easy reach of Heathrow but without London office rents.
So most ended up along the M4 and M3, convenient for visiting US executives to visit the office, then catch the flight to their next European stop.
Once established, moving to more sensible locations (say the City, or Manchester, or whathaveyou) became more difficult as by then there were staff. Who had to get to the office every day, not just once a quarter.
And as a result office rents in places like Maidenhead and Reading sometimes outstrip those in town…
Adobe, on the other hand, got it right in my view by putting their headquarters in a Scottish castle. Now that’s style.
hehe, I used to live at the top of the M3 in Isleworth, and so, I know that area well enough. Didnt know there was a borland office around there though!! I was just thinking for everyone whos not in england, goes to a mapping site, and types in Twyford and sees loads of them
Visit Poland !!!
Visite surtout la France
You must visit Poland!
The rumour has it that in the late 1980s when small firms like Microsoft, Oracle and suchlike were looking for bases in the UK, they wanted somewhere within easy reach of Heathrow but without London office rents..
very good
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