Re: A mysterious (but seemingly genuine) opportunity

Roy Hann wrote:

> I just got this email today, from a well-placed acquaintance, passing on
> an opportunity that greatly exceeds my ability to execute. If anyone
> reading this meagre outline feels they might have the right background,
> I'd be happy to pass on your email address.
>

>>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.

The requirement of "some kind of evaluation" is rather vague.

>>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.

Doing any kind of coherent technical or theoretical evaluation of anything "multidimensional" would be very difficult and probably wouldn't help them in any case if their question is "Might this thing make money?". Received on Tue Oct 14 2008 - 23:28:11 CEST