| | | XIII - XVI GeneXus Meetings :: The Meetings through time :: Years 2003, 2004 and 2005 |
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| At a time when social networking is gaining momentum on the Internet, the GeneXus Community is becoming increasingly stronger, bringing together over 50,000 members worldwide. |
| 2003 | | XIII International GeneXus User Meeting | 
Well over 2,500 people attend the XIII GeneXus Meeting, while more than 2,000 participate over the Internet. It is held from March 31 to April 2, at the Radisson Hotel — already a classic for GeneXus.
This is also the year when Artech enters the Chinese market and opens their office at Sao Paulo, Brazil, leading to the I GeneXus Brazil Meeting.
According to the prestige ranking by the economy and markets supplement of newspaper El País, Artech is among the 20 most prestigious Uruguayan companies.
The new corporate portal is launched at www.genexus.com Here, users may access and participate in different ways: registering at GXtechnical in order to access more information, subscribing to GeneXus News, downloading GeneXus Trial Version, etc.
The future: more certainties than trends
With regards to technology, in his conference “The future: a personal view" Breogán Gonda stressed that the facts were signaling a point of no return in connection with servers, database management systems, platforms and XML.
Meanwhile, a strong trend is observed in the integration of WorkFlow into system development. “Dealing with workflows outside programs, separating the decisions made during development from those taken during execution. This is a tremendously strong trend. The quality of the systems built this way is truly higher, and their life cycle is much longer,” said Artech president.
From the first database servers used 40 years ago, the trend towards the use of servers has evolved and consolidated. “When I know nothing, I do everything. As I begin to acquire actual knowledge, I can start separating the problems I have already solved — so I don’t need to solve them all over again every time— and searching for some kind of automation that solves problems for me. That’s where servers come in,” Gonda explained. Today, you can find all kinds of servers: application servers, Web servers, Web Services servers, e-mail servers, image servers, signature authentication servers, license validation and certification servers…
Artech president spoke about metadata servers in particular, which allow for intelligent behavior and decision-making at runtime — not just during development — by separating data from the description thereof (metadata).
He also claimed there’s no doubt the platform market will be shared by two platforms — Java and Microsoft .NET. But there are two pending questions: how fast will each one penetrate the market? Which one should we choose? Breogán Gonda suggests picking a development based on knowledge that’s independent from technology and market swings.
What was going on then in the technology field?
. GXportal and GXquery were already out in the market. Artech will release GeneXus 8.0 (SDT, ADO, J2EE. DBMS: PostgreSQL, PocketPC generator).
Oracle Grid: At OracleWorld 2003, in San Francisco, Oracle introduced Oracle Database 10g, its new database based on Grid technology and designed in order to help companies optimize the performance of their hardware and software tools. The functionalities of Oracle Database 10g include automatic management, which eliminates some repetitive tasks that hinder daily management tasks such as performance diagnosis, application fine tuning and memory management. Oracle Database 10g incorporates a new control system developed for Web environments, called Database Control. This system creates a graphic diagnosis window within the database while it is working. This allows managers to actively control the database while alerts and suggestions aimed at maximizing software performance are received.
Apple’s iTunes manages to make music downloading legal by paying USD 0.99.
Second Life: Linden Lab develops a virtual world that has generated thousands of avatars; even organizations, companies and embassies have created a "second life." |
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| 2004 | | XIV International GeneXus User Meeting |  Once again, Radisson Victoria Plaza Hotel in Montevideo is crowded with 3,000 people from 21 countries who attend the XIV International GeneXus User Meeting for three days (June 14-16). Again, 1,500 people participated in the event over the Internet, since the conferences were webcast live.
The event offered over 120 sessions, including conferences and labs, with speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Spain, the United States, Japan, Mexico and Uruguay.
Nicolás Jodal explained why the new tools introduced by Artech aim at improving companies’ productivity and flexibility.
The X GeneXus Knowledge Bases Exhibition took place during the event, presenting the latest solutions by software houses that develop products and solutions with GeneXus.
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2004 was also the year Artech entered Oracle’s partner network and the research, simulation and testing lab for the .NET platform — a joint effort together with Microsoft and Zonamérica — was launched.
The Community had grown by 40% to over 16,000 users, with an increase in the number of GXnews readers and subscribers to GeneXus technical forums. This was also the year GeneXus Community’s Wiki (www.gxtechnical.com/wiki) was launched.
GeneXus consolidates its position in the East
GeneXus Japan Inc. opens after a partnership between Artech and major Japanese entrepreneurs is established for the distribution of GeneXus in the Japanese market. The company is chaired by Engineer Fumio Owaki.
In addition, the company continues to develop in the Brazilian and Mexican markets through subsidiaries Artech Mexico and Artech Brazil, and it continues to increase its distributor network, which by 2004 includes 28 countries.
| | What was going on then in the technology field?
Firefox: Mozilla Firefox is an Internet browser developed by Mozilla Corporation and a large number of external volunteers. [3] Firefox — officially abbreviated Fx or fx [4] and most usually FF — derived from Mozilla Application Suite, which it finally replaced as the flagship of the Mozilla Project supported by Mozilla Foundation. It is based on Gecko — the layout engine that processes web page content, mostly developed with C++. It incorporates pop-up windows blocking, tab browsing, dynamic markers, open standard compatibility and a mechanism for adding functions through extensions. Some Net surfers quickly adopted Firefox despite Internet Explorer’s dominance over the browser market. According to several sources (cited in the statistics reference), in December 2007 Firefox accounted for about 20% of the global market. In December 2007 it held 28% of the European market, and up to 45.4% of the Finnish market. By October 2008, Firefox reached a usage share of 19.73% in the global browser market.
The term “Web 2.0” is created, which signals a change in the way the Net is used: multi-directional, collaborative and based on information exchange.
Facebook: Mark Zurckerberg creates the social network called Facebook. It was originally used by universities, but by 2008 it already had nearly 100 million active users.
Flickr: This site becomes popular for storing and sharing photos and videos.
Gmail: Google’s e-mail service offers 1 GB of e-mail storage space.
Digg: This science and technology news site is launched — a symbol of web 2.0.
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| 2005 | | XV International GeneXus User Meeting | The XV International GeneXus User Meeting took place on September 12-14, with 3,300 participants. GeneXus 9.0 was launched and partner agreements were announced on the occasion.
“The mission of Artech is to deliver a tool that allows for the creation of applications that could not be built manually,” stated Nicolás Jodal during the XV International GeneXus User Meeting. He also encouraged the GeneXus Community to lead the construction of the new generation of business applications.
In line with its mission, in the event Artech introduced GeneXus 9.0, which — as explained by Artech president Breogán Gonda — implied a 100% increase in GeneXus productivity as compared to its previous version.
In addition, this XV meeting also saw important announcements being made regarding agreements between Artech and its strategic partners. The joint creation of a Lab together with IBM Uruguay and INCO in order to test large GeneXus applications on iSeries was announced. The outcomes of one year's joint work with Microsoft at the Lab Authorized .Net Solution Center in Zonamérica were presented. Fifteen companies took part in this effort, developing 100,000 GeneXus objects and generating 200 million C# code lines. And together with Oracle, Hewlett-Packard and Tilsor, Grid LAB was launched — a lab devoted to demonstratinggrid computing technologies.
The conferences held during the three days of the International GeneXus User Meeting were attended by 3,300 people from 30 different countries. | 
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What was going on then in the technology field? AJAX: Thisacronym stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.” It’s a web development technique for building interactive applications or RIA (Rich Internet Applications). These applications are run on the client — that is, in the user's browser — while asynchronous communication with the server is maintained in the background. This way, changes can be made on pages without needing to reload them, which means a boost to the application’s interactivity, speed and usability. Ajax is an asynchronous technology in that additional data are requested from the server and loaded in the background without interfering with the page's display or behavior. While JavaScript is the scripting language in which Ajax call functions are usually made, access to data is done through XMLHttpRequest, an object available in current browsers. In any case, the asynchronous content does not need to have XML format. Ajax is based on open standards such as JavaScript and Document Object Model (DOM); therefore, it’s valid for multiple platforms and may be used in many operating systems and browsers.
Youtube is founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It is the first time digital videos can be easily shared.
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