End of June: Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Almaty and Kazan

End of June was very intensive for Russian CodeGear: we did approx.18000 km over Russia and Kazakhstan and visit 4 large cities: Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Almaty and Kazan. We did presentations of new products, brought CodeGear news and, the most important, communicate with people and told them about our plans, intentions, discussed problems, bugs, approaches, and listened for their feedback.

Russia and Kazakhstan are big countries, and not all people have good and affordable Internet access - in Kazan, for example, traffic costs 7cents/Mb. It’s obvious that Internet applications are not very popular in such conditions, and main focus will remain on desktop applications. A big buzz about "Internetization" of business and Web 2.0 is just a new strange marketing thing for millions of people…

The number 1 question was about future of CodeGear. People now are much more calm than it was immediately after 02/08/06, but still concerned about ways of CodeGear evolution.
It’s a well-known fact that big things are better viewed from far distance and so people are concerned about "platform wars" between Microsoft and Open-Source world - what will happen with CodeGear? Are you powerful enough to fulfil your decision to be platform-independent and developer-oriented? Did we decide right to choose CodeGear tools?

Currently the role of developers in business mind is set behind of abstract solutions or another "silver bullets". Simultaneously requirements for developers became much higher than they were several years ago, but currently business cares more about hardware and middleware they bought from big vendors after intensive marketing flush, not for own developers which seems to be the real modest heroes of IT and do the real work. People really appreciate role of CodeGear as developer representative in the world of platforms. It’s scary to imagine the world where developers will be slaves of platform solutions and their managers instead of creative role they play now.

You can think that CodeGear seminars are kind of philosophic events but this is not true We just communicate with truly believers and supporters of CodeGear, and it was glad to see young men and seasoned veterans of software development in hot discussion of future software ways.

Thanks to all for coming!

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Posted by Alexey Kovyazin on July 4th, 2007 under Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Seminar in Moscow with Jim Douglas

 At June 7 we did a large seminar with our CEO Jim Douglas. ~170 users were at seminar, and though the technical topic was “C++Builder, JBuilder and RubyOnRails preview”, most people took a chance to ask our CEO a question directly. A lot of questions were about CodeGear plans, about its presence in Russia, Unicode and Linux plans and so on – exactly as in other parts of the world, people here need reliable first-class RAD technology and need to be sure in the future of CodeGear.

After the public part Jim had a meeting with Russian CodeGear experts – well-know community leaders from popular Russian CodeGear-related sites www.delphikingdom.ru, www.delphimaster.ru, www.torry.net, www.cppbuilder.ru and www.ibase.ru

Experts discussed with Jim several important questions: community relationships improvement, bug-fixing and feature prioritizing.

Simultaneously I did technical part about C++ 2007, JBuilder 2007 R2 and RubyOnRails. The most interest was about new C++Builder features and RubyOnRails – we have 3 people subscribed for RNR testing immediately after seminar.

So, it was hard but great day. Thanks to all for coming!

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Posted by Alexey Kovyazin on June 8th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »

Seminars in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg

Hi All!

We had 2 seminars during last week in Moscow, March 15, and yesterday in Saint-Petersburg. There were ~190 people in Moscow and ~60 in Petersburg.

People were very enthusiastic and interested in new products, especially in Delphi for PHP, which “seems to be just fantastic“ as one of attendees said. Also many questions were devoted to plans and upcoming releases, choices and challenges in software development. During coffee-break was the hot discussion "native vs managed" code.

Thanks to all for coming!

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Posted by Alexey Kovyazin on March 20th, 2007 under Uncategorized | Comment now »