May 2009 Archives

Today we have launched our long awaited eccenca.com website and the first BETA version of the soon to come commercial eccenca product.
The circumstances of this launch are peculiar in many ways. The most disappointing being that some of those who have helped us in defining the vision of eccenca are no longer part of our team. When celebrating the site and product launch today, we want to thank those who have given us support or have directly contributed during the long implementation cycle.

What is the right time to come out with a product? How feature rich and functionally complete must it be to get the desired response in the market?
If you have been involved with the development of any piece of software you must know, that at this point we have more ideas of what to do next than ever before.

A good old German proverb is: "Better late than never!" and I would like to ask you to apply this notion to this delayed posting of my fifty cents about the Boston event.
Before going into some details about interesting people I have met during the conference I want to salute Harry Collier and his team for having managed to once again make these three days very special to all of us.  What I found particularly charming about the event was what I would like to call a constructive openness. Even though most of us present could be considered competitors, the atmosphere was filled with a free flow of ideas, sharing of best practices and constructive discussions.
Here is a link to the agenda and online versions of the presentations. (Infonortics Agenda) For those who could not make it this is a wonderful way of sharing at least some of the good stuff that was presented.