Re: Toad - a global team

Wow. And a very active base of users too.... ;-)
Groetjes,
   Wim


2012/3/29 Mark Lerch <[email protected]>

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> We are in our final days of code freeze now for Toad 11.5. It feels like
> standing outside a delivery room. The doors are shut to the developers, QA
> is inside doing regression testing, documentation is preparing the
> literature, and sales, training and marketing are gearing up to show the
> baby to the world. And there is the wondering and waiting. Will it come out
> on time, and healthy?
>
> This is also a period of increased communication on the team which
> inspires me to reflect on how global it is.
>
> We have language experts in Belgium responsible for the amazing parser
> Toad uses.
>
> We have quality assurance in Zhuhai, China. Very little escapes this team.
>
> We have a team in the Czech Republic responsible for the modules in Toad
> which involve diagramming, which is a completely different area of
> expertise.
>
> We have a college intern in Pennsylvania creating some soon-to-be
> announced online functionalities.
>
> We have development teams in Texas and North Carolina whom everyone knows
> on this board.
>
> We have a team in Hong Kong responsible for the Tuning module integrated
> in Toad.
>
> We have a team in California responsible for the license module used
> across Quest products.
>
> We have an installer team in Australia responsible for the Quest
> Installer, integrating the installation of all the other products with
> which Toad is bundled.
>
> We have a world class support team in California.
>
> We have Product Management in England, California and Washington.
>
> We have a huge new Sales group in Cork, Ireland.
>
> We have a web team in Virginia.
>
> We have Product Marketing in California, Systems Consultants all over the
> world.
>
> We have people in California managing the integration of all the bundles
> with which Toad is grouped.
>
> We have licensing, accounting, operations, IS, IP, Recruiting and so forth
> in California. Many go unnamed but are just as crucial to the process as
> most others. Just one example: if our source control server goes down at
> 7.30am east coast time, an email is sent and it is back online quickly. The
> guy who maintains it lives on the west coast. So that's a response at
> 4.30am his time.
>
> We have Toad users all over the planet who relentlessly drive product
> direction.
>
> It is quite a wonder to witness the movement of all these gears turning
> together to produce this product.
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