Client Response

• "Anything is feasible, as long as WE have results by Christmas. Did we mention that 1 billion $ expansion in Asia that needs this system immediately?"

  Note: this is late November!
  
  

• Hey no Problem, I'll do a prototype foryou in 3 weeks.

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Notes:

Well, I did have to convince the CIO that Smalltalk was a viable choice, and I did have to convince the department manager that I wasn't a crazy Canadian...

The prototype which was done in three weeks actually ran a month for the test phase and 17 incremental changes later we had the first production image.