Ahh, the anticipation... DXIO coming to life

Yes, it's true. DXIO is coming to life over the next few hours. What we've been seeing for the past 6 years (well, I've only seen it for the past 16 months) has been a huge evolution. From it's very early days as some kind of off shore retirement fund to DXGold and finally to DXInOne and tomorrow to... I can't help but feel excited, and yet anxious, too. Having been involved in other programs that have risen from "alpha to beta" and finally to public launch, so many things to do, and so little time to do them. I guess it's time to put things into perspective. The best way I can relate what DXIO must be going through would be to equate it with a traditional business I created. My idea was born in 1980 and went through many incarnations before I finally saw any profit. In fact, by the time the business matured, it was more parallel to what I had originally created, than the actual original business. Along the way we had many ups and downs, starts and stops, successes and failures. DXIO has certainly had their share as you read through the histories. After about 9 years and 3 physical moves, we felt it was time to build our own facility. Now, my little business was very "deadline driven". We worked with perishable products and our market was one of "get it here right now, tomorrow is way too late." As a result, we built the new facility while continuing to operate the old one. I still remember standing on what was to be the paved street in front of our plant some 30 days after the gravel had gone down, pacing back and forth while on the cell phone talking with the contractors. My only question... how come my street isn't paved? The answer... it's the weather, it's our schedule, we have to wait for the city, blah, blah, blah. My concern was that we were falling behind my schedule. We couldn't get the big equipment in to prepare the building site until after the road was paved, and of course the utilities also had to go in before and after the paving. Well, long story short, with a whole lot of riding herd on sub-contractors, I brought the project to completion about 3 weeks later than I'd liked, but under budget, which was more important. Now, back to DXIO. With programming, it's very difficult to hold to a deadine. I know that sounds pretty stupid, but consider this... When you write code, there is no margin of error. After all, everything you write is simply some representation of "electronic logic". It's either "on" or "off". That means each single character, which represents a "bit", and two bits make a "byte" or a state of on or off, can affect many other areas of a program. Forget one semi-colon, or mis-spell a command, and you've got problems. So they've been programming and testing, running a parallel system, working to assimilate as much data as possible and create as real as possible the scenarios we'll see at launch. What do I believe will happen tonight? Oh, I suspect the site will be down for an hour or so... maybe even 24 hours. I believe they're also changing servers so most of the down time will be related to the propagation issues around the world, not to DXIO. I can promise you that DXIO will get the blame. If they've done their programming correctly, we may see a short blip, and then experience G2. At any rate, as G2 comes to life, we're in for a whole new learning curve. All I can say is... the sooner the better. Shari