Today we closed the transaction selling our company to a major player in the financial information biz. I’m not displeased, but I’m not overjoyed either. On the one hand I really wish we could have stuck it out another couple of years to get a better valuation. On the other hand, who knows how the future would play out and it may well be better to cash out now while the company is still worth something. It’ll also be a bit of a change to work in a big corporate environment again. Not looking forward to the inevitable politics and slow grindings that come with the territory. Also gonna have to get rid of Yahoo Messenger which will be the biggest lifestyle change to my workdays. Workwise I’m curious to see how this will pan out. The company that acquired us is a big Windows shop and I am sooo anti-Microsoft. But hey, they paid for the right to mandate whatever platform they want, so I’ll just do my best to help them make educated choices. i.e. I’ll be telling them what the consequences are and when they have problems down the road, at least I’ll have gone on record as advising otherwise. I won’t exactly be leading any linux crusades thru the organization, but I certainly don’t want responsibility for problems that arise with a platform I don’t condone. I’m sure they do need some enlightening though, since a lot of the good things they acquired our company for are directly attributable to the way we’re able to work based upon the platforms and technologies I’ve chosen and the methods of building and maintaining a website that I’ve refined through the years; methods that may not exactly port seamlessly to .NET if you know what I mean. We’ll see how it goes. I’m of a more entrepreneurial mindset anyhow, so if I don’t like how things go, it’s just more of an incentive to move on to the next chapter of my career sooner rather than later.