+1 and Thanks for taking over Simon! Cheers,
Nick --- Presentations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have had an offer from SolarMetric Inc > (http://www.solarmetric.com > ) to do a presentation on Java Data Objects (JDO) at the > October 8 meeting. > Because the speaker will be travelling, they need to know > by mid August if > we are interested. Apparently, they have spoken at other > JUGs and have had a > tremendous amount of interest. Personally, I am very > interested in this > topic. > > I have included the message they sent below. It appears > they sell a JDO > implementation named Kodo JDO. > > Please let me know if this is of interest, and I'll > schedule it. > > Thanks, > > Simon. > > P.S. Nick has relinquished his duties as Presentations > Coordinator while he > works on his next literary masterpiece. > > <HR> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,<BR><BR>We are interested in introducing the JDO specification to your JUG at your October meeting . We will try to keep our talk as vendor neutral as possible. What do we need to do to be a speaker at your JUG meeting? We'd be interested in the 1 hour timeslot.</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><BR>Java Data Objects (JDO) was recently approved through the JCP in a landslide vote 14-0. The Java Data Objects specification provides a standard way for persisting objects and is showing a great deal of promise by increasing application portability, reducing development cycle time, and improving code quality.<BR><BR>The likely speaker will be Abe White, Senior Software Architect, or Patrick Linskey, VP of Engineering.<BR><BR>Patrick and Abe have been working with JDO for over 15 months and have been involved in object/relational mapping for over 4 years. SolarMetric is part of the specification maintenance team and is a charter member of JDOcentral, a consortium committed to marketing the Java Data Objects specification. SolarMetric has been active supporting the JDO specification at Java User Group meetings throughout the country at the Research Triangle Park, NC, Pittsburgh, Northern Virginia, Albany, Houston, Denver, New York City, and Ft. Collins, CO.<BR><BR>Patrick Linskey (<A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>) manages and drives SolarMetric's technology development as Vice President of Engineering. Previously, Patrick worked in TechTrader's R&D department. At TechTrader, Patrick became the link between client projects and R&D helping ensure that TechTrader developed technology that met customers's needs. A skilled developer, Patrick is equally comfortable at the keyboard or in front of clients. Patrick has also worked at MIL 3 (now Opnet Technologies) and First USA. Patrick also worked on Passive RF Tagging Technology at MIT's Media Lab. Patrick graduated from MIT with a BS in Computer Science & Engineering.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Abe White, Senior Software Engineer, is the original author of Kodo JDO, our JDO implementation. His contact information is <A href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]";><FONT face=Arial size=2>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>. Abe is SolarMetric's point person on the JDO specification maintenance team and is a JDO luminary on JDOcentral, a consortium committed to supporting the Java Data Objects specification. He has extensive experience in Object/Relational mapping, Object/XML mapping, and Java Enterprise technologies. Abe graduated with High Honors from Dartmouth College with a degree in Computer Science.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR>Thanks,<BR>Neelan Choksi<BR>SolarMetric Inc.<BR>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR>202-595-2064 x1331<BR>http://www.solarmetric.com<BR>***************************************<BR>Vote and encourage your friends to vote for Kodo JDO as Best Java Data Access Tool (Category 7) and Best Database Tool or Driver (Category 29) at the Java Developers Journal 2002 Readers' Choice Awards. The ballot is online at http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2002/nominationform.cfm. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
