BorCon - Sunday Part II - Opening Session
"If you're paying attention, please yell!" That is a chant from the techno song looping prior to the start of the BorCon 2004 opening session. Our MC, David I then came out and lead the audience from the floor in what I would call "developer aerobics" to a similar beat-based techo number with lyrics I don’t remember. You could tell he was hurtin' -- utterly exhausted -- once he took the stage kicking us off with an "Unleash the Power!" declaration. With all his energy -- I guess you could say he is Borland's princal Power source for the community of Borland users.
We were told by David I that the Monday AM session will have something special (indeed it would be), and added that on Wednesday they will have "something special for everyone."
Dale Fuller came out, with David I staying on stage and gave us the spin on Borland's Vision for the Future. It was a three fold discussion featuring Borland's Past, Present and Future. Some of the D.F. quotes include the following:
"[We will] never abandon the developers"
"[We're] focused on developer productivity"
"The past is really our future"
"It's all about the code"
"We focus on the code... up"
Hot new emerging technology for this conference: DiamondBack – Borland’s Visual Studio IDE match that integrates Win32 and .NET development with tools like Delphi, and C# (not mention of C++) with tools like Together, StarTeam and Caliber.
I learned a new politically correct term coined by the Borland CTO (I don't remember his name -- but it's not Blake Stone) who joined Dale on the stage, which is “Long live assets = legacy software.”
This year, Allen Bauer won the President award! Honestly, my bet had been on Michael Swindell (Oh well, maybe next year Michael). But there is no doubt Allen was certainly worthy of it. Congratualations Allen!!
Missing this year … No Q&A with Dale Fuller. :-( & No Ray Lischner.
We were told by David I that the Monday AM session will have something special (indeed it would be), and added that on Wednesday they will have "something special for everyone."
Dale Fuller came out, with David I staying on stage and gave us the spin on Borland's Vision for the Future. It was a three fold discussion featuring Borland's Past, Present and Future. Some of the D.F. quotes include the following:
"[We will] never abandon the developers"
"[We're] focused on developer productivity"
"The past is really our future"
"It's all about the code"
"We focus on the code... up"
Hot new emerging technology for this conference: DiamondBack – Borland’s Visual Studio IDE match that integrates Win32 and .NET development with tools like Delphi, and C# (not mention of C++) with tools like Together, StarTeam and Caliber.
I learned a new politically correct term coined by the Borland CTO (I don't remember his name -- but it's not Blake Stone) who joined Dale on the stage, which is “Long live assets = legacy software.”
This year, Allen Bauer won the President award! Honestly, my bet had been on Michael Swindell (Oh well, maybe next year Michael). But there is no doubt Allen was certainly worthy of it. Congratualations Allen!!
Missing this year … No Q&A with Dale Fuller. :-( & No Ray Lischner.
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