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I had a great visit to TrackMaster's offices in Mountainview last week, met pretty much everyone in the business, peeked into their data centre. It was nice to put faces to voices, hear their passion and concerns about racing, see their kids' paintings on the wall, meet Jerry's 2 dogs, etc, etc. In other words, meet real people, not just a faceless corporation.
We talked about progress on RDSS 2 (they grilled me on final release date), I gave a demo of the software so far, showed them RDSS running on a remote server via my notebook (though we could have used an iPad if there was one handy - my response to their mobile software initiative), discussed areas of greater future collaboration on supporting RDSS. Dave Seigel invited us up to Sacramento Friday evening to watch a few harness races where he was driving, but we had to beg off this time.
They promised to hold my feet to the fire (at my request) for my newest RDSS2 delivery goal of next March 31, but all the while still seem fairly pleased with the number of software users so far - by far the most of any third party software using their data files.
Then back to this beautiful (and rainy) autumn Canadian weather.
Ted
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RDSS - Racing Decision Support System™
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