Let me catch everyone up a bit. After Techfi was acquired by Advent, I stayed on for another year or so, fighting for Techfi clients and staff alike. Obviously, I lost. I don't blame Advent really, in their eyes, they had two competing products. They were losing a lot of money and had to make some tough decisions, they laid off a lot of employees and cut a lot of projects. Techfi was one of the projects that got cut.
I moved on from Advent and joined a local company called IAN who had been acquired by SS&C. While at SS&C, I restructured development and redesigned their product for the next generation. After many discussions with SS&C management I realized it was probably going to go the same way as Techfi did after the Advent acquisition. I was getting worried that IAN would be shut down.
It was about this time that I ran into Matt again. &am ...