Small World

I’m at a 4-day workshop in Redmond this week, in a building across the street from my usual MS-office. We have 67 software developers here, and we’re showing them all the exciting things they can do with the new version of Office scheduled for release next year.

Over lunch, I was talking to some guys from Interwoven, a leading developer of document management software. Their offices are at 303 E. Wacker Drive in Chicago, a building I know very well. I spent many long days in that building in the late 90s, because KPMG Peat Marwick used my Gen-Bar ® software there. (I can’t stop putting that R after the name, because it’s the only product I ever bothered to register as a trademark.) And since Interwoven works with large law firms, we found we had many contacts and clients in common in Chicago: big law firms like Winston & Strawn, the Chicago Board of Trade, and others.

Well, speaking of this conference, it’s time to go introduce the next speaker …

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