Living Software - Instil’s Team Blog

We have joined the great unwashed and are twittering away about software and life. You can follow Tara at http://twitter.com/TaraSimpson and Marty at http://twitter.com/henderson_mk.

We will be presenting at next year’s Software & Systems Quality Conference in Dublin, March 2009.

More information can be found at the SQC Ireland conference website.

Times are undoubtedly tough.  For many it is a time to bunker down and consolidate - protect what you’ve got and perhaps even shed a bit of excess.  And indeed, we have already seen one customer go to wall, not through having the wrong product, but through venture capitalists getting themselves overly and unnecessarily anxious.

Apparently the companies that came out of America’s Great Depression best were the ones that spent on marketing and advertising.  Even in tough times, companies can grow and prosper.  Our belief is that even in today’s tougher world, there is way more software to be written than there are people capable of writing it.

That’s partly why we are growing.  The other reason is that no matter how good or bad the times are, we see a real need for a software company at the top end of the market - one renowned for its excellence.   Growing is essentially validation of that primary goal.

So welcome, Marty Henderson. Marty joins Instil with 8 years of broad industry experience, bringing with him a raft of Java, JEE and .NET experience.  His first job is helping a valued customer develop and deliver their Java Portal for release early next year.   More importantly he will be working on a number of product-related ideas in the background.