And the winner is…

We’ve received the cover designs for our book, dm Server in Action. We had three choices and the final scores are:
In the third place miserable looking so and so, whose pen hides Ani’s name!

In the second place, a fairly wealthy turk. We think he’s rich, because he’s dressed in blue and in his time, blue was the most expensive colour. To get truly rich blue colour, you needed natural ultramarine, which turns out to be the most difficult pigment to grind by hand, and for all except the highest quality of mineral sheer grinding and washing produces only a pale grayish blue powder.

And the winner is…

We actually don’t know anything about her, we can only guess that she’s Dutch and that she’s not particularly wealthy. But that’s OK, we’re not snobs at all, even if we live in the UK, have kippers and toast for breakfast and cups of tea and biscuits at 5.