**People's relationship with and use of technology, both personally and in the workplace, is going through some big changes. The term "Web 2.0", as a name for these changes is already obsolete, but the change is still coming! In the engineering discipline, these will have a big impact because engineering is at heart, a creative and social process. While large-scale I.T. systems like PLM are clearly neccessary, day to day engineering has enjoyed limited computer support beyond the office suite and email. We believe that this is about to change along with the general changes in computing. Just how this will happen is now our main area of interest.

**The web taught us that small companies can do big things, and the current economic downturn favors those that grow directly from creating value for customers. Firms that depend only on IPO or acquisition to incent capital investment suffer because venture capital, IPO's and acquisitions are scarce. Today's business models and available outsourcing for business functions mean that profitable companies can serve mission-critical needs of larger enterprises successfully, without having to become large themselves. We are excited by this change, and working hard to create just such a company.