Today was the first of two days of meetings with the staff of the former SeeBeyond operation in Hyderabad. On this occasion I was tagging along with Dale Ferrario, VP of Sun’s business integration software group. (Dale and I go way back: he’s been at Sun 18 years – almost as long as I have – and he’s taken on an even more diverse collection of jobs than I have.) After we’d met with the site manager, Sunil Bajpai (pictured below with Dale), and had a tour of the facility, the entire crew drove over to the Sheraton where we had an all-hands meeting followed by a party.
The party started with some wild fun and games outside in the dusk. (Trust me: that MC in the middle of the circle is about to get things really fired up. Unfortunately it was too dark to capture the action photographically. Imagine a combination of “Simon says”, a rugby scrum, tag, and Twister!)
Sunil and Dale.
A sudden cloudburst drove everybody inside. Here’s the whole gang, in two shots because I couldn’t persuade them to move back enough to fit into one.
And finally here is a 2.4MB QuickTime video clip of everybody saying “Hello!!!” to their colleagues in Sun.