II to IV GeneXus Meetings :: Story of the Meetings :: Years 1991, 1992 and 1993

The II Users Meeting takes place on December 3rd, 1991, at the conference room of the Bank of Uruguay (BROU).
Breogán Gonda announces that the number of GeneXus users in the region has grown three-fold. The Meeting becomes the ideal space for new users to share experiences about "A new world, that of the knowledge market."

Towards the end of the Meeting, Nicolás Jodal, joined by Jorge Mastropietro and Gustavo Proto, makes the first presentation that would become a traditional feature of the GeneXus Meetings: “GeneXus in the short and medium term.” The direction in which the technology is moving is part of the question that will be answered every year, in addition to the path that GeneXus will take.

As far as GeneXus was concerned, that year the focus was placed on database structure. Jodal spoke about the recent theory of dialogs for databases and, in that sense, he announced that a new object would soon be incorporated into GeneXus 3.0 to define queries on-screen. In addition, he announced the integration of a utility that enabled analysts to communicate designs within the GeneXus environment. Event-oriented programming was presented as an innovative development that would bring about changes to how programming was done, and GeneXus would be geared in that direction, affirmed Nicolás Jodal.

 

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• The III GeneXus Users Meeting was held at BROU’s conference room and, in view of the increased number of topics to discuss, it was held over the course of two days (December 7th and 8th, 1992). 

• In addition to the presentation of experiences in the use of GeneXus, Breogán Gonda coordinates the Seminar titled "Incremental Solutions, Knowledge Marketing," in which he addresses the importance of achieving compatibility between databases developed by different users. The GIK project was also addressed on that occasion. 

• Artech already had approximately 50 local and foreign distributors, GeneXus was used in approximately 250 foreign companies, and the staff was made up of 20 people. GeneXus is distributed by IBM in 8 diskettes. 

• The first GeneXus Users Group starts to be organized.
   

• GeneXus Consulting is created to provide assistance to large companies that work with GeneXus.

•  Towards the end of the III GeneXus Users Meeting, Nicolás Jodal speaks about the versions released during the year 1992 and what lies ahead technology-wise for 1993. 

• In turn, Breogán Gonda gave a moving closing address in which he acknowledged and highlighted who the key players in the GeneXus world were in 1992.

• The local press pays attention to this young company: "Imagine an enterprise... a young IT enterprise that is run by young people. This innovative endeavor, with a revolutionary and unique product, is not a multinational. No, and it isn't in Silicon Valley either." El Observador Económico (June 15th, 1992).
   

• La Mañana newspaper publishes "GeneXus: national expertise at the forefront of Information Technology" (July 24th, 1992). 

• Artech is distinguished as one of the 100 most innovative companies in Ibero-America, as published by El País (July 5th, 1992). 

What was going on in the world of technology?

• Vinton Cerf, "the father of the Internet", creates the Internet Society, an organization dedicated to promoting the Internet.

• The IV GeneXus Users Meeting is held on October 24^th and 25^th, in Montevideo's city hall.  
• At the event, technology solutions developed using GeneXus, such as AMICS, start to be presented.
   
• Experiences working with GIK are presented. The GIK project was a proposal for a standard in the context of knowledge reuse (GIK: GeneXus Incremental Knowledgebase).
   
• The increased number of presentations given by GeneXus users was followed by Nicolás Jodal's talks. At the time, he announced 2 GeneXus versions: 3.1 for Windows and 3.2 for Client Server.
• On a commercial level, GeneXus was being sold throughout Latin America.

 Agreement signed with IBM

• On April 1^st, 1993, Artech signs an agreement with IBM at the Presidential Office of Uruguay. GeneXus becomes the first tool of its type created in Latin America.

 What was going on in the world of technology?

• Intel Pentium: The first Pentium was launched to the market on March 22^nd, 1993, with initial speeds of 60 and 66 MHz, 3,100,000 transistors, internal cache of 8 KB for data and 8 KB for instructions; it was the successor of Intel’s 80486 processor.
• Mosaic: It becomes the Internet’s first graphical browser; the WWW to access the Internet gains popularity.