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From: Don jessup (djessup72, yahoo dot com) Date: 2001.11.25 - 22.44 MST
I understand that Paul is ineterested and willing to help and I imagine his experience would be extremely valuable. I'm still not clear on a question that June asked. Do you really think Paul will be giving us money in January? This last e-mail make's it sound very unlikely. --- Perry Merritt <perry, merrittclan dot com> wrote: > I think Paul is interested. He's asked for a > business plan that he can present to his investment > group and to friends of his here in the states. Dan > and I have been working on it this weekend. I just > sent him my stuff. THe plan is to get it back to > Paul midweek this week. He sent Dan an email after > we got back apologizing for not giving us a check > and offering to support us as we seek funding. > > We need to write some other things that I sure don't > have a problem with getting your help on. > > We need a whitepaper that describes the architecture > and the two products DataExtender and TeraGuard > (ARVM and ADML). > > We also need to start filing out patent forms. There > is a bunch of information at > http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/index.html > > > I figured on three patent attempts, The ability to > capture file activity for the purpose of providing > intelligent data management (adml), The ability to > provide policy-based management of kernel and > application software (portal), and The ability to > utilize applications in a policy-based storage > system (ITK). > > So if you'd like to start working on any of those it > would be helpful. > > > We got to play on Saturday. We visted the Tower of > London, took a city cruise down the Thames to > Westminster, heard Big Ben chime, saw Parlament, > rode the tube to St Paul's, (went inside, but Dan > wouldn't pay to see the really cool parts) and then > rode the train out of Paddington station to Reading > and on to Ditcot. Sunday we walked outside the hotel > and saw Wallingford castle (or what remains of it). > It was right behind our hotel in Wallingford. On the > way back from the meeting on Monday we drove through > Oxford. Didn't eat any beef, but got to go out for > Indian one night, oh boy. > > Have I ever mentioned that I hate computers? I > installed my wireless network this weekend. $75 > billion dollars and a day of work later, now I can't > play network games, one computer crashes in netbuei, > and my DSL won't work. > > Perry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: June Mullins junemullins, earthlink dot net > Sent: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 14:18:08 -0700 > To: antera, cryptofreak dot org > Subject: Re: Home > > > Sorry the money wasn't immediately forthcoming. The > only thing I'm > afraid of > is how serious Paul is - is he really going to be > giving us money in > January? I actually > don't mind waiting until then - I'm enjoying having > the time off in the > meantime. What's > the next step for us? What can we do to help until > then? > > Did you get a chance to play at all in England. I > hope you did some fun > things too, > over the weekend. You didn't eat the beef, did you? > > I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I did - > but too much food! > > June > > Perry and Lorae Merritt wrote: > > > Dan and I got home around 5:00 tonight. > > > > > > > > While the trip wasn't exactly what we had hoped > for, it was still a > > good learning experience. Dan and I came back with > a list of things to > > get done, surrounding a business plan, getting a > whitepaper on the > > technology and getting patents filed. > > > > > > > > I'm sorry you were in the dark while we were gone, > I thought Dan had > > sent you something Monday, but I didn't see it > when I got home. > > > > > > > > Monday we met with a guy that wanted to provide us > with a CEO and to > > help us find funding. All he wanted in return was > a large sum of stock > > and cash. We're going to try some other avenues > first. > > > > > > > > We had a meeting with a technical/sales guy that > Barry knows on > > Saturday. He thinks the products are solid ideas. > > > > > > > > Paul, whom we met with on Tuesday, also very much > likes what he saw. > > He wants to put RAID controllers (that he already > builds and ships) > > out on a fibre channel behind our IMU and wants to > stripe across the > > controllers. That way he can loos a drive and the > controller will > > protect the data and he can lose a controller and > we'll protect the > > data. He has a lot of legacy hardware in the field > already and likes > > the idea of being able to extend the life of it > with out solution. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, as I said from England, Paul won't > have his investment > > money until January. He is also part of an > investment group that is > > looking for something in Febuary. They may be our > big round of funding > > after the initial bit from Paul. He also said he > knew people here in > > the states that would be good sources for money. > Dan should be getting > > conversations set up with those people in the > coming weeks. > > > > > > > > Perry > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Visit http://www.visto.com. > Find out how companies are linking mobile users to > the > enterprise with Visto. > > -- > This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, > email > majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body > `unsubscribe antera'. > Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 -- This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, email majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body `unsubscribe antera'. Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/.
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