Conference Etiquette and Guidelines
Co-emcees Sami Aaron and Bill Downall reviewed the various logistics of the Conference.
Items of special interest include Project Bundle Up and the Silent Auction. Click the link on the blog to learn more about Project Bundle Up.
R:BASE Technologies has provided two very special items to be raffled off to raise funds for Project Bundle Up. One is a top-of-the-line Sony Vaio laptop that comes with R:BASE 7.6 and Turbo V-8 preinstalled. The other item is an Apple IPod. Raffle tickets for the laptop are $10 each or 5 for $40 while tickets for the IPod are $5 each or 5 for $20.
There were a surprising number of Conference first-timers this year. They ranged the gamut from R:BASE veterans to R:BASE newbies. One attendee traveled clear from New Zealand to attend!
Developer of the Year for 2007, Mike Byerly, had the privilege of introducing Razzak Memon, president of R:BASE Technologies. Razzak expressed deep appreciation to conference attendees for coming to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RBTI. As Razzak often says, he doesn’t ration his passion he shares it. No one will ever question his passion for his “baby”.
Known facts behind the success of R:BASE Technologies, Inc.
Razzak then proudly introduced the Godfather of R:BASE, Wayne Erickson. He has been one of the many guardian angels of R:BASE.
Among R:BASE’s other guardian angels are Aleksey Chuyasov, Alex Ageev and John Minyo. Razzak is especially proud of his son Rafee Memon who is working on a double major at CarnegieMellon University.
Collectively this group represents the R:BASE Dream Team.
Razzak also introduced additional guardian angels and unsung heroes of R:BASE. These included Bill Downall, Sami Aaron, Claudine Robbins and Mike Byerly.
A video of BCON Systems from Japan was presented. They were singing a song wishing us the best of luck with R:BASE.
Amazing 10 Years!
Wayne Erickson presented a fascinating history of the original roots of R:BASE going clear back to work he did while working at NASA along with Dennis Comfort.
The acronym for the project they were working on was IPAD. Besides the official designation for what IPAD stood for and due to the difficulty and complexity of the work, additional definitions were used like:
Segue from the days of Microrim to 1998 and the official birth of R:BASE Technologies. The first official release of R:BASE under the auspices of RBTI was R:BASE 6.1A, released in November of 1998. One of the first changes to R:BASE was a fix for the JDATE function (think Y2K problems).
BCON systems, from Japan, has been an integral part of R:BASE since 1983. Their version had a number of enhancements over the 6.1A version. Using BCON’s codebase, the first true blue RBTI version was released in February, 2000. This was known as R:BASE 2000 version 6.5.
New and improved releases ensued. It came time to modernize to make R:BASE a true Windows program. The first 7.0 version was released in June, 2002. Subsequent releases included 7.1, 7.5, finally culminating in version 7.6 released in October, 2006.
There was still a need to “Break the Limits”. This required a new file format to break the 2 gigabyte technical limitation. In addition to being able to create databases of virtually unlimited size, the new format would allow for longer names for tables, reports, variables, etc. throughout the database. The new file format brought about the creation of R:BASE Turbo V-8, released in 2007.
Into the future, the next product under development is R:BASE eXtreme, version 9.0. The exciting journey continues . . .
Co-emcees Sami Aaron and Bill Downall reviewed the various logistics of the Conference.
Items of special interest include Project Bundle Up and the Silent Auction. Click the link on the blog to learn more about Project Bundle Up.
R:BASE Technologies has provided two very special items to be raffled off to raise funds for Project Bundle Up. One is a top-of-the-line Sony Vaio laptop that comes with R:BASE 7.6 and Turbo V-8 preinstalled. The other item is an Apple IPod. Raffle tickets for the laptop are $10 each or 5 for $40 while tickets for the IPod are $5 each or 5 for $20.
There were a surprising number of Conference first-timers this year. They ranged the gamut from R:BASE veterans to R:BASE newbies. One attendee traveled clear from New Zealand to attend!
Developer of the Year for 2007, Mike Byerly, had the privilege of introducing Razzak Memon, president of R:BASE Technologies. Razzak expressed deep appreciation to conference attendees for coming to celebrate the 10th anniversary of RBTI. As Razzak often says, he doesn’t ration his passion he shares it. No one will ever question his passion for his “baby”.
Known facts behind the success of R:BASE Technologies, Inc.
Razzak then proudly introduced the Godfather of R:BASE, Wayne Erickson. He has been one of the many guardian angels of R:BASE.
Among R:BASE’s other guardian angels are Aleksey Chuyasov, Alex Ageev and John Minyo. Razzak is especially proud of his son Rafee Memon who is working on a double major at CarnegieMellon University.
Collectively this group represents the R:BASE Dream Team.
Razzak also introduced additional guardian angels and unsung heroes of R:BASE. These included Bill Downall, Sami Aaron, Claudine Robbins and Mike Byerly.
A video of BCON Systems from Japan was presented. They were singing a song wishing us the best of luck with R:BASE.
Amazing 10 Years!
Wayne Erickson presented a fascinating history of the original roots of R:BASE going clear back to work he did while working at NASA along with Dennis Comfort.The acronym for the project they were working on was IPAD. Besides the official designation for what IPAD stood for and due to the difficulty and complexity of the work, additional definitions were used like:
- I plan all day
- I predict a disaster
- It probably ain’t doable
Segue from the days of Microrim to 1998 and the official birth of R:BASE Technologies. The first official release of R:BASE under the auspices of RBTI was R:BASE 6.1A, released in November of 1998. One of the first changes to R:BASE was a fix for the JDATE function (think Y2K problems).
BCON systems, from Japan, has been an integral part of R:BASE since 1983. Their version had a number of enhancements over the 6.1A version. Using BCON’s codebase, the first true blue RBTI version was released in February, 2000. This was known as R:BASE 2000 version 6.5.
New and improved releases ensued. It came time to modernize to make R:BASE a true Windows program. The first 7.0 version was released in June, 2002. Subsequent releases included 7.1, 7.5, finally culminating in version 7.6 released in October, 2006.
There was still a need to “Break the Limits”. This required a new file format to break the 2 gigabyte technical limitation. In addition to being able to create databases of virtually unlimited size, the new format would allow for longer names for tables, reports, variables, etc. throughout the database. The new file format brought about the creation of R:BASE Turbo V-8, released in 2007.
Into the future, the next product under development is R:BASE eXtreme, version 9.0. The exciting journey continues . . .
I think Razzak said that R:BASE software wouldn't be pre-installed, but would could with license keys, so that he wouldn't have to break open the original packaging of the laptop.
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