Wayne,  Shari O., Cory, John, and I were on the server meeting. Shari O. stayed for the first little bit and then had to bail out. We were talking about a client and some of the needs and/or even their potential needs. One of our clients was sold to another owner and the new owners are going in a different direction. We were talking costs and prices of what it takes to open and close systems. We talked about normal storage where a client still has access to a system with minimal traffic vs full cold storage where it gets stored away and totally inaccessible unless a major system restore is done or made. We talked about costs to do some of those activities. You end up with costs both coming and going. We would have to pass those values over to our client, depending on which way they want to go.

Along those lines, of setting costs and values, I let Cory and Shari O. know that they have my full permission to set those prices as they see fit. After that, we rolled into a number of other server type questions. We went over possible options of doing some custom work and linking up the adilas database with a different service on the Amazon cloud. This would be specific for a bigger client with multiple systems. They are wanting to hire out a data analyst team to pull some deeper queries and get some aggregated data flowing into certain reports.

One small takeaway from our meeting - Wayne was pitching the concept of spending some time on doing a proof of concept before either fully committing or giving an estimate. Sometimes you have to jump in and swim for a bit before you really know what it will take. That is kinda scary sometimes.

Wayne left and it was just Cory, John, and I on the meeting. John was showing us a small demo of his newest version of the discount engine and new updates and changes. It is live, but hidden. We encouraged him to keep pushing things up to that spot (hidden but live) so that we could follow along with progress.