A mysterious (but seemingly genuine) opportunity

> I've been approached by an investment company, based in Chicago,
> that wishes to invest in some "database technology".  They wanted to
> know if I would be willing to do some kind of evaluation of the
> technology in question (I'm not), or if I knew anybody else they
> might approach for that purpose.
>
> I had a phone call with the person who contacted me and I learned
> that the "technology" in question is in the Data Warehouse arena and
> involves translating SQL queries into some "multidimensional
> database" notation, to take advantage of some possibly novel storage
> architecture.  The guy I spoke to was a lawyer who had found my name
> [...] by Googling "database" (!) and had bought [my book], which of
> course was impenetrable to him.

I have already verified that this is nothing to do with the Transrelational Model; the lawyer had never heard the term or the name Steve Tarin.

My reply-to address won't work, so if you don't feel like putting your hand up in public, email me at coddbotherer at googlemail dot c-o-m.

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Roy