12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

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MSDN Blog Postings » 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:39:49 GMT

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re: 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

Henk de Koning — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:56:33 GMT

Wasn't Thor the code name for SNA Server ?

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omz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:36:48 GMT

why don't you get a decent job? ;-)

congratulations

omz

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Chris Clark — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:45:26 GMT

Putting aside the MSFT/ODF clashes just for the moment it's interesting to read about people's backgrounds Jason. Well stated.

Chris

Interesting Finds: November 7, 2007

Jason Haley — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:24:31 GMT

re: 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

Matt Asay — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:34:35 GMT

You're a huge credit to Microsoft, Jason. I wish you were still involved in the open-source world, but I understand that you're also valuable (unfortunately :-) to Microsoft on interop. Thanks for being a friend and a constant challenge to complacency in the open-source world.

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Dennis E. Hamilton — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:38:25 GMT

Congratulations. And you did all this while living in Portland?

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jasonmatusow — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:03:44 GMT

Thanks guys,

Yes, all living in Portland vs. making the oft-requested move to Redmond. If my memory serves, Thor was the connector technology for data integration with early SQL Server to mainframe data using the SNA Server. I could be wrong in that though.

Jason

re: 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

Bob Marsh — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:18:21 GMT

“Thor” delivered the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for AS/400 and VSAM, which was made available exclusively as a feature of Microsoft SNA Server 4.0, released on or about December 5, 1997. Microsoft SNA Server 4.0 shipped standalone, as well as with BackOffice 4.0 and Visual Studio v6.

--From an old SNA Server guy

PS Happy 12th and many more.

re: 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

Wesley Parish — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:55:22 GMT

I wouldn't say security needs a superlatively high IQ so much as an ability to look around corners without appearing to do so. It's not paranoia as such, when nobody makes/can make an insignificant movement, when every word means something hostile ... that's a medical condition requiring medical assistance. It's more an enhanced empathy for the dark side, an inability to think wishfully about security, and a steadfast refusal to join up with said dark side. It's related to the ability to play chess to an extremely high standard, much higher than your average Sunday arvo's friendly game; it's not part of the poker player's repertoire, since poker's much more of an open game consisting of bluffing rather than reading a situation three or more moves ahead of yourself in many possible time-lines/light-cones.

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len — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:13:18 GMT

"songs to aging children come..." Joni Mitchell

Coding is a kid's game requiring a kid's brain. That is why the web feels like a cross between a city council meeting and vincent price's 'red masque of death' and acts like the high school bully who now works for you.

Things that happen as I age: I regret not spending more time with my kids while they still had their baby faces, and I like music that is quieter and more harmonic. Dad said this would happen. That is the third thing as pointed out by Mark Twain. Fathers become wiser. Buds become more distant. There is an obvious inverse relationship between wisdom and Buds.

See closing scene of The Coneheads.

re: 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

John West — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:20:37 GMT

Congratulations on 12 Years!!!!

The fact that you can still muster up the will to crawl out of bad after all this time is a testament to your fortitude and commitment, and perhaps pleasure for abuse. I know i could never handle it :P .

All kididng aside, thanks for getting me involved with this company, and congratulations on your 12 years!!!

re: 12 Years...Feels Like Dog Years

Jim Gross — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:31:59 GMT

12 years!!

You've come a long way baby.

Congratulations.