On Campus at Microsoft
June 1st, 2006Well, today I made my first visit to the Microsoft campus for a meeting with a representative from the Corporate Procurement Group to discuss the solution that we will be building them over the next few months. It was really exciting because this is our first big sale to Microsoft and a nice step for Qdabra Software (our new name) in the transition from consulting services to product. Anyway, we met in one of the newer buildings, 405, and it was very cool. The bigger conference rooms have LCD displays on the wall next to the door displaying who and when someone has reserved the conference room via a Meeting Request in Outlook. All of the furniture is pretty nice and the computer equipment was almost endless. Everywhere I saw equipment of all sorts strewn here and there. I guess that’s to be expected at any software company though. After the meeting we stopped by the kitchen and I got a free cup of coffee from a machine that grinds, brews, and serves by the cup on demand. There was also a couple refrigerators stocked up with sodas of all kind. It was a pretty cool new experience and it will be incredibly exciting as I start working on-site to get the Procurement Solution installed and running.
