I’ve never been much of a partier but this holiday season was pretty daft. I didn’t really get into the “spirit” this year.

Anyways, I just figured I’d throw another useless, waste-of-time-to-read post out there because soon we will be updating our blog over at Central Desktop to wordpress. Rather than just overwrite the old installation of simplephpblog and lose all posts, links, and pagerank, I proposed installing it in a new directory (/blog).

The bosses liked it, and suggested that everyone who works here write a blog post at least once a week just about our jobs, the industry, and other interesting mojo that relates to running a successful software company. One thing that CD as a company has not done too well is build that huge web 2.0 reputation that 37 signals has done. This is one reason why BaseCamp seems so much more popular than us. The fact that 37 signals developed RoR can only help this. They also had a 22 month head start on us and focus more on the VSB’s, for example, a small team of 2-5 working on one web project. CD targets the SMB’s, maybe a team of 5-50, or more. As a platform, CD is very robust and flexible. It’s a lot more difficult to “outgrow” CD than BaseCamp. Anyone who has bothered to try out both softwares will know what I’m on about.

I will admit, when I went in for my interview, I thought CD was basically BaseCamp, just not as popular. You could say that working here has inflicted some sort of bias on me, but the truth is that no product really can be directly compared with us. It’s sort of like this. You could compare a Honda S2000 and a Mazda RX-8 directly - many have done so and it’s accepted that the RX-8 is simply a four door, four seat alternative to the S2000. You could also compare the RX-8 to a BMW 3 Series sedan, but you cannot compare the S2000 to the BMW 3 Series. I’m not entirely certain the importance of this post, but it’s some nonsense to get me back into blogging mode.