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Verbatim quotes about Resilient Threads - A meeting with four staffers at the SEC: ? "Of course the SEC would love it if everyone used threads." ? "It's good to know that there is such amazing technology out there to help people comply with Sarbanes-Oxley." ? "I'm sure you'll get tremendous interest with this product." (Repeated three times in five minutes.) - A meeting with Gartner Group ? "This is awesome - it's simply incredible!" ? "It's a killer app for SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)" - The Director of Compliance at financial services firm with ~$1 trillion in assets : ? "This is amazing! I see infinite applications for it at the bank, not just in compliance, but everywhere." ? "We're getting killed in compliance by all these regulations, and this is the first thing I've seen that gives me hope." ? "This is important - we need to be on the forefront of adopting this technology." - Meetings with Director of IT Policy, Evaluation and Selection at the General Services Administration: ? "It's a project manager's dream!" ? "You have no idea how unusual it is to see something that is this exciting. I've evaluated software for a living for 20 years, and all these vendor pitches are almost always a total snoozer - so complex and boring you just know it won't really work. And it almost never does. Your stuff is totally different - I can instantly see how it would work, and make the government more efficient. I truly feel I can serve the public trust best by getting the US government to adopt Resilient." ? "Why would anyone use regular email, if they could use a thread?" - Director of Sales Operations of BlueArc, former Controller, Broadvision ? "It's a controller's dream." ? "We could use this all around the company, in every function." - Former President of Wired Digital ? "It's what email always should have been."
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The reception record for Resilient threads in the winter of 2004, compiled contemporaneously: the SEC ('of course the SEC would love it if everyone used threads'), Gartner ('a killer app for SOX'), a trillion-dollar financial institution's compliance director ('the first thing I've seen that gives me hope'), the GSA's twenty-year software evaluator ('I truly feel I can serve the public trust best by getting the US government to adopt Resilient... Why would anyone use regular email, if they could use a thread?'), and the former president of Wired Digital ('It's what email always should have been'). Together with S-117 this documents the original Resilient's initial application focus — Sarbanes-Oxley and broker-dealer compliance — and its analyst and government reception, for the entity split pending the author's answers on names and transition.
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