And when a couple of competitors were able to get funded early, it made it harder for us. We wish we could be out there competing on features and quality rather than on who got funded at the casino. They thought our product was significantly better than other solutions they had seen. The company had several other seed and beta sites, as well. Hedlund says no.
People are extremely interested in distributed computing.
The enterprise market is extremely interested in distributed computing, and we still believe distributed computing is the future of computing. For pharmaceutical and biotech companies, the Human Genome Project has created a huge dataset they needs to be processed. At the same time, the economy is turning down and they need to compete more aggressively.