Thanksgiving

Last week, we closed two projects. The combined value of the two projects is worth twice the revenue we've ever earned to this date. Butch and I thought that it would be two to three years before we would be at this scale. It took us one. I can't help but feel humbled by how God has blessed us with good opportunities, and the good people to execute on them.

Now, even more than before, I feel that God has a plan for this company. From the start, we wanted this company to be a way to contribute back to our country. We want to resuscitate the engineering community and engineering tradition in this nation. We want the Philippines to be known as a center of engineering excellence. Our efforts are for software engineering, but success in this area may encourage growth in the engineering communities in other fields (robotics? materials? genetics?). A strong engineering industry will significantly contribute to a strong economy, as it has for Japan, the USA, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, India, China and South Africa. I feel that our blessings last week was part of God's way of telling us that we're on the right track, that our dreams for this country are realistic.

I also want to thank all the brilliant yet tough-as-nails engineers of Orange & Bronze Software Labs, whose commitment to fulfilling our promises to our clients has won us our clients' trust in these bigger endeavours.