Jeff Steiner

Yes, I am based in Munich.

due to a series of weird events that would probably take longer to explain than this phone call has.

It's been about four years.

The final step in the roads to Munich was I got involved with a project with a lot of databases, and I just kept on answering question after question and flew out to Frankfurt a number of times, and finally they said, hey, why don't you just...

move here full time.

And that sounded like a really good idea to me.

It's cheaper to move you out here.

Well, I'm doing my best.

But the problem is most of the time I end up talking to people in either RTP, California or Bangalore.

and there's not a whole lot of German being spoken in any of those places.

Interesting, yeah.

So I'm okay.

Just not as good as I'd hoped.

Interchangeable.

Okay, cool.

So I am the general database guy here, specifically a principal architect for, I believe it's called Enterprise Solutions at the moment.

What that means is I'm in engineering, I'm not sales or marketing, and I work across a lot of different engineering groups and some field groups here.

Just trying to keep track of what's going on with the market for those critical enterprise applications that power the enterprise.

And now I'll take my marketing hat off.

But what it means is, like, the projects range.