[js2]

I was a sysadmin for a company called Loudcloud that no longer exists, but we ran web site operations for other companies. We used to get pitched by a lot of vendors. It was usually the typical salesman + sales engineer combo and I was always frustrated that vendors often had difficultly answering technical questions about their own product.

But not Urchin. The crew they sent to pitch us deeply knew their shit. That was probably 2001 or so. I am not at all surprised to see how well they've done within Google.

[flyt]

And the most important aspect was that their product wasn't bullshit: It was actually really great, self hosted web analytics.

[stormbrew]

I actually miss it. I kind of think Google made a much worse product out of it, overall.