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2007-01-07 20:07:30

Ten Years

With a person, it's pretty simple.  There usually isn't much ambiguity in specifying the birth date of a human being.  I was born on March 15th, and that's the date I celebrate every year.  Nobody has ever tried to suggest that I should celebrate some other day.

With a company, it's a bit more complicated.  There are several dates we could choose for the purpose of annually marking the advancing age of our auspicious assembly:

I suppose there are valid reasons for celebrating any of the above birthdays.  But the birthday I have always celebrated for SourceGear is today, January 7th.  It was on this day in 1997, ten years ago, that I took possession of my first office space.  That's the day I consider this company to have been founded.