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September 18, 2007
Thermo!
Well, the cat is out of the bag, so to speak... People are blogging about Thermo and Ted Patrick just posted a note about it being in the keynote at MAX. This is all according to plan. Or almost...I haven't been blogging at all for the past few months and the reason is that I've been hard at work leading the team building Thermo. I am REALLY excited about it! We're going to be showing it as part of the MAX keynote in a few weeks and I think it's going to really be an important product and can't wait to show it off.
When Sam Robbins blogged about discovering a job description for an Engineering Manager Position on Thermo, it caught some people by surpise. In fact, here at Adobe, there was an email flurry and someone suggested that we need to make sure we scrub external job postings for codenames. This part was all part of my plan.
When I wrote the job description, I wanted the Thermo codename to get out, and I carefully worded the job description to get people excited about it without giving away all of the details, which we would be revealing at MAX. My plan was that I would blog about the job description to do two things.
First, I wanted to get any great Engineering Manager who wants to work on an exciting 1.0 product that will have a huge impact to apply for the job. So if that's YOU, please click on the link and follow up with the Adobe recruiting team.
The second thing I wanted to do was get people excited about MAX. I think it's going to be a great show, and there is going to be a lot of really fantastic stuff shown. I think Thermo is really going to open some minds and so I definitely wanted to get people excited about MAX and to realize that if they thought that this was the year to skip it.. well think again!!!
What did not go according to my plan is that I was supposed to first one to blog about it! Argh!!!! What I hadn't exactly anticipated was that when the story broke somebody else from Adobe would reply, in this case Ted. But Ted captured a lot of the key stuff I wanted communicate about Thermo. It's really exciting, it's going to very important product and we're going to be showing it off in the keynote. So if you want to be up on where we're going with creating RIA, come to MAX!
I hope to see you in Chicago! (Or Barcelona or Tokyo!)
Posted by Mark Anders at 01:38 PM | Comments (12)