I had lunch a couple weeks ago with George Schussel, the founder and CEO of Digital Consulting, Inc., one of the country's largest IT conference organizers. We compared notes on interesting trends and developments in the field, but he stunned me with the news that DCI's "Database World" conference has shut down. It was the company's flagship conference for over 15 years, and it enjoyed a monopoly for a year after the demise of its only competitor, the massive "DB Expo" conference.
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Does Anyone Care About Application Development Anymore?
By Ed Yourdon
Posted October 6, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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