`An idea
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`Summer 1998
`Performance vs Failures
`Product Name: Sonar
`ADP says – 10% with performance, 90% resolving system/application failures
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`Fall 1998
`Which Middleware – All?
`Aage and Benny fulltime
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`Winter 1998
`Sonar for MQSeries!
`Wayne Schutz IBM MQ expert visits
`VOB created 1/18/99 – getting serious
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`Spring 1999
`Showed prototype to IBM MQ Development Group – UK
`Lixin has joined Aage and Benny
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`Summer 1999
`Design / Development
`Chad, Deepak and others join team
`Product Name: eScope
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`Fall 1999
`Alpha released
`Marking demo
`Worldwide effort – Chandra, Murali and Ahmed join
`Wayne Schutz from IBM back - "What you have today will knock people's socks off"
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`January 2000
`Getting great feedback on alpha demo
`Engineering and marketing working hard
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`February 2000
`Technical brochure and multimedia demo
`Functionality complete
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`March 2000
`Crunch time
`Sales calls start – Morgan Stanley – first sale quote over $100K
`Morgan says: "You guys are going to sell a shit-load of this stuff."
`UK Visit – IBM and BT sales visits, UK MK Users Group
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`April 3, 2000 – Ship Early Adoption Release
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`June 9 – Ship Generally Available Release
`June 10 – eSleuth Development Team to Las Vegas
`June 12 – IBM MQ Trade Show in Las Vegas
`Goal – return with more than 1000 leads
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