Next, here's a shot of us and some of the LYNX team at Cargill:
Next, a shot of geese wandering the grounds. These geese had no fear of people or cars - they seem to have it made :)
And finally, a picture of a building that would have been nice to meet in. This was a residence for someone back in the 20's, and it's gorgeous. It's now part of the complex - apparently, they have retreats and such there:
I appreciate all the folks at Cargill taking the time to meet with us - they're a great bunch!
I'm in Minneapolis, MN today and part of tomorrow, visiting Cargill - a large customer of the Cincom Smalltalk group. They've spent the last decade+ building a large suite of applications they call LYNX - to summarize a lot, it's a system that deals with the grain origination business, through the supply chain from the farmer to the end purchaser. I can't go into a lot of details - like Cincom, Cargill is privately held, and they have a lot of proprietary value locked up in this system. They've evaluated it against various COTS systems over the years, and have always made the determination that LYNX served their needs better.
We got a lot of background on the business and application architecture from them. The