Earlier this week, one of the developers at Intalio suggested that the Server Team, which is made of three developers living in San Francisco, CA and working in our Redwood City office, and one developer working from home in Ann Arbor, MI, moves to San Francisco, CA, in order to reduce commute time. Our current offices were already too large for us, and this relocation project might be the compelling event I had been waiting for to move into a more suitable space. This might in turn let us experiment with the creation of an Office 2.0 office space.

If we decide to move, we will take advantage of this opportunity to outsource and virtualize as much resources as possible. We will replace our battery of QA and testing servers with smaller blade servers running VMWare, we will get rid of our antiquated PBX and switch to a VoIP platform (please advise if you’ve done that already), we will replace our Xerox copier and our fax machine with a couple of scanners, we will sell our last desktop computers, and we will experiment with various web conferencing solutions in order to facilitate communication between all our locations — beside Redwood City and Ann Arbor, we have teams in Atlanta, GA, in Switzerland, in Ukraine, in China, and in India.

At present time, Palo Alto, CA looks like the best place for us to relocate our core team. We are currently looking for a space in downtown Palo Alto that could host up to 8 people, with a meeting room that could comfortably sit up to 10 people in a boardroom configuration (needed for our training sessions). We have many customers and partners coming to our offices, therefore we are looking for space in a Class A or Class B building, with a one or two year lease. If you know about such a place being available either now or in the September timeframe (when our current lease expires), please drop me a line.