We know: These FUFteen web years were just as long as fifteen human years, but they felt much longer because we experienced so much in the process: Winning pitches, impossible Golive deadlines that we managed to meet after all, night shifts with lots of coffee and bug fixing, ski trips to the Zugspitze, exploding coffee machines, last-minute plan changes that made us tear our hair out and so much more that makes FUF what it is today:
Fifteen years means that we experienced and survived the New Economy. We were thrilled by the gold-rush atmosphere in the nineties and were there when the bubble burst. One day we dropped the "new media" from our name because the Internet was no longer new to us. We started out in Ludwigsburg and now go home after work in Stuttgart West.
Fifteen years of Frank and friends means that we are already old hands in this business of extremely short half-lives. Old hands who still enjoy finding the perfect, intelligent and future-proof solution for our customers as much as they did on day one. Since our foundation, we have always tried to recognize and avoid technological dead ends. We've seen trends like WAP, Second Life and Flash intros come and go elsewhere when we've long been relying on XHTML, TYPO3 and modern frameworks.
FUFteen years stands for a small start and rapid growth. For 250 job interviews in one year and a healthy shrinkage in the next. And for slow and stable growth since the 2000s.
But above all, FUFzehn stands for exciting projects with many great colleagues. We would like to thank Frank and his friends Kerstin, Katja, Klaus, Holger, Jörg, Marwin, Thomas, Karl, Markus, Michael, Dominik, Oleg, Oli, Annemarie, Ulrich, Micaela, Marco, Leonid, Diana, Christian, Falko, Regina, Maria, Andrej, Peter, Marion, Alex, Tobias, Juliane, Ivonne, Benny, Andreas, Jessica, Elke, Jürgen, Annette, Simon, Jan, Ulf, Francesco, Christin, Elisabeth, Sandra, Frederick, Nicole, Oliver, Celine, Stefanie, Christoph, Marzell, Robert, Daniela, Annette, Timo, Claus, Markus, Kristin, Kevin, Tessa, Ron, Christian, Sascia, Yves, Hannes, Nathalie, Anuradha, Sven, Sonja, Michael, Felix, Sarah, Karolin, Carsten, Yvonne, Robert, Frank, Tania, Nina, Besnik, Katharina, Denis, Fabian, Wolfgang, Alexander, Daniel, Maria Jose, Jochen, Steffi, Alexandra, Kristina, Martin, Christoph, Isabel, Mareen, Julia...and all the others who have inadvertently gone unmentioned here!
Thank you for fifteen great years!