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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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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