X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.2) with ESMTPS id 4118218 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:30:07 -0500 Received-SPF: softfail receiver=logan.com; client-ip=216.240.18.37; envelope-from=echristley@nc.rr.com X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,438,1262592000"; d="scan'208";a="314077883" Received: from smtp1.corp.netapp.com ([10.57.156.124]) by mx2-out.netapp.com with ESMTP; 09 Feb 2010 13:29:31 -0800 Received: from [10.62.16.80] ([10.62.16.80]) by smtp1.corp.netapp.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/NTAP-1.6) with ESMTP id o19LTU6h004707 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:29:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B71D3B9.1030406@nc.rr.com> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:29:29 -0500 From: Ernest Christley Reply-To: echristley@nc.rr.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: rpm vs Power was : Throttle limits was Re: N.A. Renesis to turbo References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Maher wrote: > Ernest, > Have you found employment? > Last I heard you were starting your own business. > What's the story? > I've been working at Netapp as a permanent employee since August. It was the same company I was contracting with in February. It's nice to have the imaginary stability of a permanent job with benefits. My partner and I got the business going. I got us a contract that would cover half our startup costs and provide us a base to grow from. My partner "failed to deliver" his part of the functionality that we sold. I'm still at a loss to explain this particular piece of prize ineptitude. Long story short, we succeeded in turning a promising system into a turd in record time. Now I'm sitting on a piece of decent technology, that requires both some competent web technology and a competent sales organization to drive it. It's just disgusting that two years of work can go from so much potential to pointless so quickly.