Describing and not programming is the paradigm that
ARTech's President Breogán Gonda proposes and confirms year after year. But at
this XV GeneXus International Meeting, Mr. Gonda went beyond that and pointed
out that in five years he expects the shift from the programming paradigm and
the adoption of the description paradigm.
The sector will not be able to avoid the growing need for
greater productivity in development, which increases at a rate that programming
languages cannot emulate, while the complexity of the applications requested by
clients rises. In five years the sector will embrace the need to work on
business knowledge and not on technology.
"ARTech's mission is to deliver a tool that enables
building applications which could not be made manually", stated Nicolas Jodal,
Vice President of ARTech, during the XV GeneXus International Meeting and he
encouraged the GeneXus community to be the leaders in the construction of the
next business application generation.
Making inroads in its mission, ARTech presented during
this event GeneXus version 9.0 which implies a 100% increase of productivity in
GeneXus over its previous version, as explained Breogán Gonda, President of
ARTech. (http://www.genexus.com/genexus90)
Besides, the fifteenth GeneXus international meeting was
the framework of other important announcements referred to agreements between
ARTech and its strategic partners. The creation of a laboratory together with
IBM Uruguay and INCO was announced, which will be used to test large scale
GeneXus applications on iSeries. The results were presented of a year of work
with Microsoft in the Authorized .Net Solution Lab Center in Zonamerica, where
15 companies have participated in developing 100 thousand GeneXus objects and
generating 200 million C# code lines. And together with Oracle, Hewlett-Packard
and Tilsor, they launched Grid LAB, a laboratory devoted to performing
demonstrations about grid computing technologies.
Three thousand three hundred people from 30 countries
attended the conferences given over the three days of the XV GeneXus
International Meeting whose material is already available online. Both the
presentation and the videos of the XV GeneXus International Meeting conferences
can be accessed from http://www.genexus.com/event2005