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A new Day - a new job - a new challenge

posted 12:46AM Nov 01, 2007 with tags day job mindquarry personal by Lars Trieloff

Today is my first day in a new job. I have been hired by Day Software as product manager for their line of collaboration software, together with Alexander and Alexander, who will join Day as software developers. This means, Day has managed to hire the core team of Mindquarry and is able to absorb our know-how and ideas for Day's products.

If you ask me why - there are two answers. When Mindquarry has to close, from my point of view it did not because our topic - collaboration - had been solved by other players in the market. From my point of view, there are too many open questions in collaboration that I want to answer and too many collaboration problems that I want to solve. So the first answer is that the vision of collaborative workspaces for all knowledge workers is still intriguing for me. The second answer is that Day is the company that can execute this vision. My first contact with Day was when we started using Apache Jackrabbit for Mindquarry. Jackrabbit is the reference implementation for the Java Content Repository Specification and Day is deeply committed to both. Then I met David Nüscheler briefly at the ApacheCon Europe in Amsterdam, was impressed by his deep involvement in Jackrabbit, JCR and his technical vision. Much later I learned that he is actually CTO of Day. Day also employs Carsten and Bertrand, whose work I value very highly and other prominent developers, engineers and scientists. From later talks with David and my investigations around microsling I learned that Day's vision of collaboration and content management, Day's understanding of technical problems is very close to mine and that I have found the ideal partner in terms of vision and ability to execute for creating ground-breaking new collaboration applications.

I am very happy for being able to take this opportunity and to be able to continue my work that started with Mindquarry. To everyone who supported me and my ideas with Mindquarry, I would like to say thank you and invite you to keep in touch to create better software for better collaboration.

If you would like to contact me, use lars.trieloff@day.com for e-mail or ltrielof@day.com for Jabber instant messaging.

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Comments:

Lars - congratulations on the lateral move, and glad we'll have the chance to continue discussions on collaboration, blogs, wikis, open source, and more!

Posted by Dan Keldsen on November 01, 2007 at 01:39 AM CET #

Sounds like a great move - congrats to all three of you. It's nice that there's a positive aspect of the end to the Mindquarry story.

Posted by Henri Yandell on November 01, 2007 at 03:31 AM CET #

Congrats! Looks like Day is the place to be for Cocooners :-)

Posted by Sylvain Wallez on November 01, 2007 at 08:07 AM CET #

Congratulations Lars! Great to see you head over to Day and of course you'll be working with a few of my ex-colleagues - from work and Cocoon!

Posted by Matthew Langham on November 01, 2007 at 10:43 AM CET #

Nice to hear you found a new challenge. All the best on your way!

Posted by Silvan T. Golega on November 01, 2007 at 11:08 PM CET #

Very nice Lars, I wish you all the best at Day.

Posted by Martin Probst on November 02, 2007 at 09:50 AM CET #

Congratulations, Lars! Glad to hear you've found a new role, and you'll be in some excellent company at Day, working with the best.

Posted by Andrew Savory on November 02, 2007 at 12:14 PM CET #

I think you've chosen a great opportunity for a job. And for sure it will be a great opportunity to learn. But anyway, as I think you're a entrepreneur by heart this will be just a stopover to you.
Good luck.

Posted by Stephan on November 02, 2007 at 11:00 PM CET #

And we from Day of course welcome the whole crew. We look forward to bringing JCR and collaboration to all kinds of customers together. For those that are interested, you can see more about some of our collaborative products.

Posted by Jean-Michel Pittet on November 05, 2007 at 10:47 PM CET #

Great meeting you at the Day International Customer event in Basel. I look forward to getting you involved, up close and personal with a number of my enterprise level customers in the NYC area, so start packing ;-). Great to have you and your team on board. Cheers for now, ~Peter

Posted by Peter J J Brady on November 06, 2007 at 07:39 PM CET #

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