When we have conversations that are sensitive, we now use Groove instead of e-mail. It is much more secure than instant messaging.
We found that decisions are better when people make them collectively in small groups. Also, it's important to get the right people involved, and all the right people aren't always present. So we needed a way to do collaboration among distributed people on distributed systems.
We're very excited to see his tenure begin here. He seems to be someone of high character. He comes highly recommended from everyone we've talked to. He stood out in the field of candidates.