[Notes from 4D Summit 2008.]
Christophe Keromen, Senior Product Manager, 4D SAS
To meet changing demands 4D will be focusing more on RIAs.
They’ll also focus on collaborative development.
The infrastructure is changing as well… Wi-Fi, mobile computing, etc… The Ajax framework is important there as well.
4D will target 64-bit
Require fewer resources, and focus on mobile friendly technologies
They understand [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008. Pictures will come later...]
Presentation by 4D Inc. Web 2.0 Team

Web 2.0 is all about rich user interfaces, another factor is the ability to constantly roll out new enhancements. One of the other factors is the fact that end users are driving the features by saying “I saw that [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Olivier Deschanels & Thibaud Arguillere, 4D SAS
They went over the remote admin capabilities - many things can be done while the server is live, but a few things, like compacting the data file, require the server to be shut down.
When designing using 4D Server/4D Remote you can how compile. [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Luc Hollande, CEO 4D SAS
About 25% of this year’s attendees are from abroad - from 18 countries.
Revenue is up, profit is strong, and cash in the bank is up considerably. Was not achieved by cutting R&D. 25% of revenue is put into R&D.
Open standards and speed to market are [...]

A talk was given at the NYC4D meeting on 19 March 2008 by Julien Feason with input from Add Komoncharoensiri and Rudi Pšeničnik - software engineers at 4D, Inc. They went over the new version of 4D’s Ajax framework with Data Grid 2.0.