Silver Stripe wins big!!

It was awesome to hear this week that local company Silver Stripe will be supplying the CMS for the Democrats in the US presidential lection later this year.

Its great when a local company that seems to have its heart in the right place, produces good gear and is out tackling the big bad world, pull off a big win like this.

It will certainly be one of the most watched elections in US history and there will be no room for error, and no second chances. But I’m sure the team at Silver Stripe are up to it. And the benefits for the rest of us will be heaps also.

They will be yet another kiwi flag flying on the internationally stage, highlighting that the brain drain hasn’t taken all the talent to Australia yet. And it will mean lots of development work will be done to ensure the CMS is robust, secure and world class.

That mean we’ll have a CMS we can source from ‘guys just down the road’ and know that it is good.

I’ve already done a bit of testing on the system for work, and it looks quite good. With the push to be 100% for the US elections, I’m sure the few bugs and niggles that are still around will be dealt with and the CMS will be bomb-proof.

To the team working on the CMS, I don’t envy you the overtime, but I do wish you very good luck and I hope it all goes as smoothly as any important IT project can go J