John Swainson

More Gen at CA World Today !

The Monday Edition of CA World Today contained a few Gen-related items – get it here

Jumar‘s Model Analyzer gets a mention on page 4, and page 5 gives us a look forward to a session looking at CA-Gen in the banking industry in Europe, whilst page 15 reminds us to look forward to the EDGE Reception tonight !!! 

Remember, you can participate in Second Life by Teleporting to the Gen Village, or HERE at the EDGE:Cam site.

Also – check out what QAT have to say about where we can go with CA-Gen and the Web.

BUT – the highlight of yesterday MUST be John Swainson’s foray into Second Life - maybe people DO need a Second Life after all  – maybe he’ll join us sometime !!!!

EDGEucate 2007 – 2 Weeks to go!

In two weeks, CA Gen experts and users will come together in Plano, Texas, for three days of solid education and networking. EDGEucate 2007, October 29-31, is your last chance in 2007 to spend time with people who know this product best and to get your toughest questions answered.

If you still haven’t registered, take it from John Swainson, President and CEO of CA, and sign up today! John’s 3-minute informational podcast includes a discussion focusing on why he supports CA Gen and EDGE. Listen to John share his thoughts on the future of CA Gen and how you can make a difference in this plan by attending EDGEucate 2007.

With more than 20 technical sessions, a full day of hands-on labs and exciting product updates from CA, EDGEucate 2007 is the place to be. Register today to join your peers at this one-of-a-kind event.

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They should have used Gen!

OK – so the technology let me down ! The phone blogging stuff I set up to report on the EDGE EMEA 2007 conference didnt work – may be they should use Gen instead !

After the initial introduction by Erik ten Harkel (Coolprofs), in which he broke the ice with some jokes and activities, we heard from some of the EDGE board members (some of whom had flown in from the USA) about the accomplishments of the EDGE user group in 2007 – culminating in the podcast from John Swainson, CA‘s CEO  in which he wholeheartedly supported Gen and gave it a rosy future.

 We then heard from a CA representative about possibilities for Gen r8. At this stage, they are only possibilities, and may not make it beyond the drawing board, or even into beta release, but the features (which include better SOA support, more Eclipse integration, performance and toolset improvements, NGEN support, and so on) mean that the tool is being DRIVEN forward, and not languishing in the doldrums. This means that the product development guys are listening to the people that matter – those who use the toolset – and addressing real-world issues.

Since the toolset IS evolving, it means that we can do so much more with it !

One of the great things about the EDGE conference, is that I met so many fantastic people, some of whom I met physically for the first time after meeting them through this site. EDGE is a brilliant way of meeting up with people who can HELP you and who you can HELP get the most from Gen and the surrounding eco-system’s tools.

On a final note, I had an interesting discussion with a few colleagues about the purpose and direction of gentalk.biz:

The site started out as, and will remain an independant view of Gen – which people are free to comment on. I will promote Gen, through the use of links and so on, and will publish stuff which I think will be of interest to other Gen users and which I think will help promote and advance the Gen “cause”.

The site is not affiliated with any vendor, the EDGE user group, or CA, and doesn’t represent any of their views,  - and they are (as is anyone) encouraged to politely agree or disagree with me through the site’s comments facility.

EDGE podcasts – get ‘em !!!

EDGE - the Gen user group has started to put together a series of podcasts – the first (see last post) was by John Swainson. The next contains a preview of EDGEucate 2007 and EDGE EMEA 2007.

Get the podcasts here at the EDGE website.

John Swainson podcast supports Gen !!!!

Fantastic news!

CA’s President and CEO John Swainson speaks about the value that CA Gen brings to global organizations, trends in the market, CA’s commitment to CA Gen and the strength of EDGE as a user community.

Play it here:

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Duration: 3 minutes, 8 seconds

John Swainson, President and CEO of CA, has great influence over the direction and evolution of CA Gen. This 3-minute informational podcast includes a discussion focusing on why he supports CA Gen and EDGE. He also discusses how CA is actively working on CA Gen release 8. Listen to John share his thoughts on the future of CA Gen and how you can make a difference in this plan by attending EDGEucate 2007, October 28-31 .

Don’t miss the hands-on labs, the exciting product updates from CA, and the more than 20 technical sessions focusing on Service-Oriented Architecture, Web Enablement, Legacy Modernization and more. In addition to the education, EDGEucate 2007 has great networking opportunities in store.

Don’t forget…Early-bird rates for EDGEucate 2007 end this Friday. If you register by 8/31, you’ll save $200! EDIT: Expired Offer

Download the Advance Program today for complete event details and to access the faxable registration form.

Also, registration for EDGE EMEA 2007, being held September 30-October 2 at Ditton Manor, UK is live. To sign up for this International event, go to www.eventbookings.com/ec2096.

To learn more about EDGEucate 2007, e-mail or call EDGE at +1.312.245.1589.

I think that it’s important that this strong message gets through to all the organisations that use Gen worldwide, to reinforce that Gen has a rosy future, and will support all new technologies, platforms and infrastructures going forward.

EDIT:   Also check out the EDGE’s new podcast site ! Next podcast will be EDGE members talking about EDGEucate 2007 and EDGE EMEA 2007.