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We had a good set of discussions at our annual planning meeting. We hold them in an interesting little place - in a "skybox" conference room overlooking the basketball court at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Other than the echoing of the basketballs from the practices, it's a pretty nice location :)

This time, thanks to the avalanche of feedback I got in email to this request for feedback, I was able to let the entire team know what people thought about our priority list immediately - very cool.

We have more planning to do in the near future - Cincom is in the process of hiring two new team members for the Smalltalk group - a marketing manager and a business manager. This isn't unique to the Smalltalk group; Cincom is doing this for the other product lines as well. This will end my relative isolation as Product Manager - I'll have a few more tasks on my plate as we get to work charting the future of the Cincom Smalltalk product suite.

All in all, it was a good week (other than the cold I seem to have picked up), and I'm looking forward to a productive year. Come see us at Smalltalk Solutions in Orlando, Florida - we should have a lot more to say by then!