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IX to XII GeneXus Meetings:: The Meetings through time :: Years 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001

By the end of the 20th century, the Internet is already consolidated and Internet-oriented business applications are steadily growing :: Most developments are done on PCs :: GeneXus introduces its Java and .NET Generator :: The training area starts becoming stronger :: The software industry takes off
  

1998
IX International Meeting of GeneXus Users

Over 1,200 participants — including 300 participants from abroad — took part in the IX International Meeting of GeneXus Users held at the Victoria Plaza Hotel Convention Center on September 15-16.

Artech had 2,400 customers worldwide by then.

GeneXus 6.0 is released and its advantages in three areas are highlighted:

- Knowledge reuse
- Data Warehousing
- Workflow

GeneXus JAVA generator is introduced. Within a context where JAVA is divided between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, Artech researches and develops a stable product that generates JAVA for any version in use.

This time, the already traditional awards presented at the Meetings give recognition to those academics that have influenced computer technology and mathematics in the country and teachers from the first computer technology university courses — which the University of the Republic started offering in 1967.

In addition, recognition is given to De Larrobla and Solur for their success in the international marketing of GeneXus knowledge bases.

This is not about miracles. It’s about faith and hard work. It’s not about genius. It’s about every day research work,” Breogán Gonda says at the closing of the Meeting when explaining the steady growth of GeneXus and its user community.

GeneXus in the short and medium term

Just as every year at the closing of the Meeting, Nicolás Jodal addresses GeneXus’ tendency and its relationship with the growing complexity of the different scenarios: client, server, Internet and Data Warehousing. 

What was going on then in the technology field?
GOOGLE, the largest search engine on the Internet, is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Its name is derived from Googol — the mathematical name give to a 1 followed by 100 zeros — in reference to the vast amount of data that can be found on the Net.

XML: Acronym that stands for Extensible Markup Language, an extensible metalanguage developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It is simplified and adapted from SGML and it allows defining the grammar of specific languages. Therefore, XML is not really a language in particular, but a way of defining languages for different needs. Some of these languages that use XML for definition are XHTML, SVG and MathML.

Knowledge Society: Towards the end of the 90s the concept of
K
nowledge Society becomes stronger as the definition of a society emerging from the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in everyday social, cultural and economic relationships within a community which, more generally, means the elimination of space and time barriers in those relationships, thus allowing for ubiquitous and asynchronous communications. 

 

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1999
X International Meeting of GeneXus Users

 

The X International Meeting of GeneXus Users is held at the Victoria Plaza Hotel on September 13-15 with over 1,500 participants.

The invitation sent to users and software companies provides an overview of the technological field towards the end of the 20th century:


Many things have changed over the last 10 years — while applications used to be mainly centralized, developed in COBOL or RPG and with text screens, today they use multiple languages, architectures and servers and very sophisticated dialogs.

Systems are now much more complex and their development is much more complicated as more elements and actors are involved. Being able to describe them and discuss them at the knowledge level means a great advantage to us. The chance to acquire helpful knowledge in the market is crucial.

The knowledge business — initially received with skepticism — is today a reality and an achievement that benefits everyone in the GeneXus User Community. Systems are becoming increasingly complex but GeneXus hides this complexity and allows for them to be developed in a simple way.”

Breogán Gonda highlights the incorporation of a new paradigm aimed at the end user — within this context he introduces GXplorer and GXquery.

As you can see in the video, at the closing of the X Meeting Enrique Baliño looks back over the 10 GeneXus Meetings“(…) And today is our tenth Meeting, held again at the Victoria Plaza Hotel. Nicolás told me we’ve run out of chairs; he doesn't know where to accommodate so many people,
that's why we're broadcasting over the Internet. This shows how successful Artech has been over the past few years!!!”
Artech releases GeneXus 6.1 (Java and Cobol Generator).


GeneXus Training

Training becomes a priority as GeneXus has become one of the most frequently used intelligent tools for software development in the region.
Universities begin to open their doors to us and the first academic agreements are signed in 1999, enabling students from Engineering and Computer Science university courses to study GeneXus as an optional subject.



 

 





What was going on then in the technology field?

Napster: This new program for music file exchange is created by Shawn Fanning. Controversy with record labels arises with regards to copyrights.

Messenger: ICQ, the first chat system, is ousted by the instant messaging program designed by Microsoft.

Blogger: The system is launched by Pyra Labs and later acquired by Google in 2003.


Messenger: el primer sistema de chat ICQ es desplazado por el programa de mensajería instantánea diseñado por Microsoft.

Blogger: es lanzado por la empresa Pyra Labs y luego adquirido por Google (en el 2003).

 

2000
XI International Meeting of GeneXus Users


More than 1,700 participants attend the XI International GeneXus Meeting held on September 11-13 at the Radisson Victoria Plaza.

More than sixty presentations are given. In addition, the VII Knowledge Base exhibition hosts twenty-five companies that showcase their solutions.

The president of Uruguay, Jorge Batlle (2000- 2005) is in attendance at the closing ceremony.

The catalog of GeneXus KBs includes more than 100 solutions, 30 of which are for the GIVS (GeneXus Internet Virtual Space) environment. In addition, KBs for use in electronic commerce settings are presented. 

It’s the first time that labs are held, with the objective of developing applications using the new technologies offered by Artech.

Some of the high-profile keynotes included presentations given by the then president of ANTEL (National Administration of Telecommunications), Engineer Fernando Bracco, and by representatives of Oracle, Microsoft and Informix.

Paullieronline, a website developed with GeneXus to operate in Latin American stock markets, is launched.


“The year of the Internet” Breogán Gonda said

This is the year of the Internet. A few years ago, the market gave some small first steps, adopting the Internet with curiosity, but with caution, and many users published small websites based on static pages that were developed manually. Later on, new websites were developed. They combined these static pages with dynamic pages and accessed the database. 

Many people considered Web applications as something completely different and isolated. However, almost all companies need systems that have Web components which are integrated into their general systems.

We at Artech have looked closely at the market and have continuously developed new technology. At present, we are performing the last tests of the new GeneXus version that contains, among other important elements, Web Objects that represent the combination of the best of both worlds: the graphics world with a powerful editor where we can introduce sophisticated graphic elements developed using the leading products in the field and the intelligence to access the GeneXus database.

But, at the same time we are adding a new option to the classic static or dynamic pages: static pages which are automatically generated at the right time. In many cases we will display static pages, which are the most efficient option, but these pages will be automatically generated and refreshed, using GeneXus when changes to data require it.

At the same time, XML, a language of self-described messages, becomes a widespread standard. XML is becoming the key tool for B2B applications, so we will see the specific possibilities offered by GeneXus in this regard.”

“The beginning of the end” Nicolás Jodal said

At the beginning of the Internet, the existing model implied that a good idea was enough for a company to go public. Once this stage is over, we would witness a period of massive exclusion in which, even if many companies go bankrupt, very few types of business enterprises disappear.

Eric Raymond, the author of The Cathedral & The Bazaar talks about an economy of abundance, instead of the economy of scarcity in which we have been educated. Even though in both economies people seek status, Raymond says, in the economy of abundance status isn't achieved by those who have the most resources, but by those who are more generous. Generous with what is scarce; that is to say, time and knowledge. In this sense, an unexpected revolution has taken place with Napster, a small program designed by a 19-year old kid who discovered a new way of doing things and in little over a year he was able to build the largest music database in the world, making the music recording industry stagger.

Clearly, we live in a time in which processes take place, and these processes are based on interconnections between people. What’s important is to take advantage of the opportunity that this generates, and be capable of reformulating the business. How do we find the opportunity? It’s simple, and depends on our own capacity to learn.

 

 

 

 

What was going on in the technology field?
In the year 2000, these programs are released: GeneXus 7.0 Multi-layer programming, GeneXus Web Start and GXplorer 2.0.

Twenty million websites are published on the Internet.

MP3: will the beginning of this technology be the end of CD? That’s what recording companies wondered at the turn of the millennium.

New LCD screens were introduced.

A service to make payments over the Internet (Paypal) becomes popular.

.NET: It’s a Microsoft project aimed at creating a new software development platform focused on network transparency, hardware platform independence and fast development of applications. The first release will be .NET Framework in 2002.

 

 

2001
XII International Meeting of GeneXus Users

                                                                                                     

 

The XII International GeneXus Meeting was held on September 17-19 at the Radisson Victoria Plaza Hotel, and gathered almost 2,000 attendees in person. 
Artech, which had recently launched its version of GeneXus for the Microsoft .NET platform, presents 18 applications developed for this platform.

In this scenario, the GeneXus Community was at the forefront of everything related to business applications developed in .NET, and for this reason at the XII GeneXus Meeting several companies were recognized as Early Adopters by Artech and Microsoft.

“Microsoft is pleased to work with Artech to provide its customers with an integral business solution,” said Alain Gentilhomme, Director of .NET Framework and Visual Studio at Microsoft Corporation. “GeneXus and the .NET platform combined create a new and exciting solution that hides the intricate details of database design from business users, in order to maximize the productivity of our non-technical users.”

In addition, Microsoft released its product Visual Studio .NET at the XII GeneXus Meeting.

 



What was going on in the technology field?

The dot-com bubble burst: Dot-com bubble is the name given to a strong speculative trend that developed between the years 1997 and 2001. As part of this process, the stock markets of western nations experienced a sharp increase of their value due to the growth of companies connected with the new Internet sector and the so-called "New Economy." The period was characterized by the creation (and, in many cases, spectacular collapse) of a new group of Internet-based companies known collectively as dot-coms. The combination of a sharp increase in stock prices, individual speculation and wide availability of risk capital gave rise to an exuberant environment. The burst of the dot-com bubble marked the beginning of a relatively mild, albeit long, recession in western nations.


Wikipedia is born (wiki = fast, paideia = education in Greek) thanks to the efforts of Jimbo Wales and Larry Sanger. It’s an encyclopedia characterized by open collaboration, free access and multiple languages.


  

 






 

 

 

 

The first export of Uruguayan software is made by Artech.

GeneXus licenses are sold to Want Want, the main company in China dedicated to the distribution of rice.

The Software industry takes off!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La primera exportación a China de software Uruguayo la realiza Artech

La venta de GeneXus fue realizada a la empresa Want Want, la principal compañía china de distribución de arroz.
 

 

¡¡¡ La industria del SOFTWARE despega!!!

 

 
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