It was great to see Paradigma Software’s Valentina listed on Doug Barry’s Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures site under the list of recommended object-relational solutions. Doug has a book on the topic, Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures: The Savvy Manager’s Guide
Shade is a general 3D modeling and animation product from Japan. It has an ancient history as far as software goes, beginning life in 1986 and quickly dominating the Japanese 3D market. At the time, the Japanese desktop computer industry was dominated by the NEC-98 series, not exactly an IBM/AT clone but close enough; yet not close enough that it wasnt a problem developing for it. The NEC-98 series ruled Japan’s computer industry, and not a lot of foreign software ran on it without serious adaptation. No real foreign competition in the very early 3D market ever made it on the NEC-98. (more…)
At the end of 2003, I had enough of trying to rely solely on a PalmPilot to take care of all of my computing needs while traveling. With a few exceptions, the Pilot did almost everything I wanted for light communications and note taking during meetings, but left me without recourse for creating sophisticated documents or showing product demos. My old ThinkPad was gathering dust. Proactive International was deeply involved in the prosumer 3D industry, and there was no way my old ThinkPad could manage a good 3D product demo. I needed a modern laptop, so I took at look at Dell. (more…)