as the low-level storage mechanism.
All this worked great. Everything was very simple and very predictable. But we didn't have big loads. We didn't intend the product to have big loads at that point; we weren't aiming at millions of users but rather at thousands of paid-by-the-seat users.
At Transpose, we can't do that. We have to prepare for scalability because we want a lot of users. That means using tools that are much more complex than Athenium's in-house ones; tools which we are not experts in. Learning the ins and outs of those tools has been the source of most of the delays. But we are becoming experts, and we are closing in on our release, which should be next week.
And, unlike many new Web sites, we will be able to handle rapid growth.
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