Archive for 2009

Countdown to launch

As we read this, the new version of CA Gen (r8) is in Beta Testing with some customers. This is the start of the countdown to the launch of the product in 2010.

2010 will be a great year for CA Gen users :

• r8 is released
• CA World 2010
• upgrades to all the eco-system tooling…..

Let’s look forward to it !

One to watch !

Not that I am of the opinion that CA Gen applications are reaching the “end of the line” – far from it – but realism hits home sometimes and the fact is that there are some organisations that can’t find skilled Gen resource to staff up their projects.

Check out Delta Corporate Service‘s Application Support Services offering here – one to watch ! 

Follow them on Twitter too.

Explanation of last week’s events

For those of you who are wondering what happened last week (i.e. the site dispayed a “Site Down” message) – see these Tweets here and here for the timeline.

The site was taken over, and the front page redirected to an undesirable page.

I have researched what happened, and under no circumstances were anyone’s registration details exposed.

The site returned to semi-operation during the middle of last week, and the damage removed – all of which consumed valuable time – time which should have been spent posting and promoting CA Gen.

All of the features of the gentalk.biz are now working again, except for the main menu bar at the top of the site. I’d never been entirely happy with that, so it will not reappear in its previous form – I’m looking at a replacement for it – which may take a few weeks to complete.

Thanks for your patience – complete service will be resumed within Gentalk.biz soon !!

Last Chance to be part of the Gen r8 Beta Programme

The CA Gen beta test programme closes for registration tomorrow – if you want to get involved – go here and register.

Its a great opportunity to enhance and be part of the future of Gen !

Legacy Modernisation

There is an appetite for Legacy Modernisation lately – its become apparent that organisations are increasingly looking toward reusing their assets in new ways and porting their existing technologies toward more productive tools, without having to throw away the last “n” years of effort and investment.

There are a number of tools and services out there that allow businesses to migrate away from so-called Legacy platforms on to “newer” or “hot” platforms like Java etc etc, but why would anyone do that from Gen ?

It seems to me that one would consider platforms to migrate TO that were more cost-effective that the current platform that the business were on, otherwise why would a modernisations be required in the first place (such as CA Gen) ?

Checkout APG’s ProgGen for examples of organisations that are using modernisation techniques.