Enjoy these back Issues of LavaLights! (Vol 2 Issue 1-6)

This is the first issue of LavaLights for 1998! How time flies, already we are on our second volume of LavaLights, Club Lava member’s exclusive news and views e-mail.
In this issue I’d like to let you know about some hot new previews of Obsydian technology now available exclusively in Club Lava. In addition, if you’ve ever thought about presenting at Synon’s International Users Conference, read on for a painless way to ease into presenting.

Ramon Chen
Director, Products
Synon Inc.
http://www.synon.com/lavalounge

An overview of Java client support for Obsydian and a proposal to enhance Obsydian’s runtime compatibility so that it supports applications created from different versions of Obsydian.
Links to these 2 documents can be found off the main Club Lava page. Please logon to Club Lava in the usual way by providing your id and password (both of which are listed at the top of this e-mail).
You will also be receiving a questionnaire shortly asking you for your views on the Java client support as detailed in the Club Lava document. Again we will be randomly drawing 3 lucky winners for Synon denim shirts from respondents, so look for the questionnaire for your chance to win!
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Club Lava at the International Users Conference in Orlando

As you may have heard, the 1998 Synon International User Conference is being held at the Disney's Coronado Springs Resort May 4 - 9, 1998.Point your browser at http://www.synon.com/IUC98US for more information.

As Club Lava members, I would like to offer you the opportunity to do a painless 10 to 15 minute presentation at the Club Lava session in Orlando. The presentation would be of your project, your successes and lessons learned using Obsydian and a quick Q&A. This is an excellent opportunity for you to gain some presentation experience while enlightening your fellow Club Lava members on your experiences with Obsydian. If you are planning on attending IUC, and are interested in doing a small presentation at the Club Lava session, please e-mail me with your details including what you would like to present.

Monday, March 11th, 1998
LavaLights: Volume 2 Issue 2

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This is the second issue of LavaLights for 1998, Club Lava member’s exclusive news and views e-mail

http://www.synon.com/lavalounge

There are 3 new bulletins on Club Lava!

1) A detailed overview of Obsydian 3.0!
2) An overview of Java client support for Obsydian and
3) a proposal to enhance Obsydian’s runtime compatibility so that it supports applications created from different versions of Obsydian.

You will also be receiving a questionnaire shortly asking you for your views on the Java client support as detailed in the Club Lava document. Again we will be randomly drawing 3 lucky winners for Synon denim shirts from respondents, so look for the questionnaire for your chance to win!

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Club Lava at the International Users Conference in Orlando

As you may have heard, the 1998 Synon International User Conference is being held at the Disney's Coronado Springs Resort May 4 - 9, 1998. Point your browser at http://www.synon.com/IUC98US for more information.

As Club Lava members, I would like to offer you the opportunity to do a painless 10 to 15 minute presentation at the Club Lava session in Orlando. The presentation would be of your project, your successes and lessons learned using Obsydian and a quick Q&A. This is an excellent opportunity for you to gain some presentation experience while enlightening your fellow Club Lava members on your experiences with Obsydian. If you are planning on attending IUC, and are interested in doing a small presentation at the Club Lava session, please e-mail me with your details including what you would like to present.

Wednesday, April 8th, 1998
LavaLights: Volume 2 Issue 3

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This is the third issue of LavaLights for 1998, Club Lava member’s exclusive news and views e-mail. We now have 436 members and growing!

HEADLINE 1: There is a new bulletin on Club Lava!

You can read about how Synon plans to end the Obsydian documentation paperchase!

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The Club Lava session will be hosted by key Obsydian development and marketing staff. There will be an exciting overview of how Synon is marketing Obsydian in the competitive world of development tools. The presentation will also include exclusive presentations by 2 Club Lava members - detailing their projects!

Synon panel members will include Ramon Chen, Shirley Foster, Adrian Slade, Michael Ehling

Club Lava members presenting: Roger Griffith, (CLM #25) Computer Arts, Inc.& Bob Kosharek, Everbrite Inc (CLM #189)

Tuesday May 19^th 6:20pm PST, 1998
LavaLights: Volume 2 Issue 4

This is the Fourth issue of LavaLights for 1998, Club Lava member’s exclusive news and views e-mail. We now have 460 members and growing!

HEADLINE 1: There are new bulletins on Club Lava!

HEADLINE 2: Get the cool Obsydian marketing AVI

HEADLINE 3: Obsydian Development Presentations

Wednesday May 27^th 5:40pm PST, 1998
LavaLights: Volume 2 Issue 5

This is the Fifth issue of LavaLights for 1998, Club Lava member’s exclusive news and views e-mail. We now have 478 members and growing!

HEADLINE 1: Synon Development IUC presentations now available!

HEADLINE 2: Synon sponsors SOLD OUT Microsoft Tech Ed in New Orleans (June 1-5)

Synon is sponsoring the premier technical conference for Microsoft developers. This sold out show in New Orleans will be packed with over 10,000+ attendees. Center stage for Synon will be Obsydian and the Obsydian for Windows NT/BackOffice generator.

If you are planning on attending Tech Ed. Stop by our booth and come join the exclusive party we will be throwing. Also come see Leonardo Da Vinci at our booth, demonstrating the renaissance of application architecture.

I’ll report back in the next Lavalight on the exclusive Club Lava insiders view on the events of New Orleans.

Wednesday June 10th 6:30pm PST, 1998
LavaLights: Volume 2 Issue 6

This is the Sixth issue of LavaLights for 1998, Club Lava member’s exclusive news and views e-mail. We now have 487 members and growing!

HEADLINE 1: Synon Rocks at Tech Ed in New Orleans

Synon's technical theme for the show was "shoot the gap" meaning, don’t wait, develop today and regenerate to take advantage of future technologies. This message was targeted towards the huge population of developers waiting for the upcoming NT 5 and SQL Server 7 releases. Synon's business theme was "real companies are building real enterprise NT applications with Obsydian". This was exemplified by Synon's two ISV partners demonstrating their applications and the power of Obsydian. PMSC brought their huge 400 entity Point + insurance application and Cantoc came with their hot new Censys warehousing product.

Mike Ehling retired Chef Michel and starred in the new Michael Ehling/Ramon Chen production of "Leonardo da Vinci does Obsydian" in full 15th century regalia. It was extremely entertaining to all as Leonardo explained the benefits of Obsydian in renaissance metaphor… I mean how would you like to build a dome on every church in Italy without a dome pattern!

T-Shirts-T-Shirts-T-Shirts!! Synon gave raffle tickets for a leather jacket to everyone found in the halls of Tech Ed wearing a cool new blue and white architecting success Synon T-shirt (around three thousand!). The halls were filled with walking Synon billboards!

Synon also had a hospitality suite run by Lisa Pascetta next door at the Hilton was very well attended by folks demanding to take a closer look.  One person stayed in the suite for 3 ½ hours, rumor has it he is rolling his applications out worldwide next week…

Synon had a video wall at the booth with a hip-hop Synon & Microsoft video, and also had a powerful, one minute, customer case study video starring Stewart Enterprises, that played in front of the general session audience of over 9500 people! Stewart  is the 3rd largest  funeral provider  in North America and the crowd cheered when the video proclaimed "Stewart puts UNIX to rest". Microsoft liked it so much, they started playing it in place of their video in the middle of Steve Ballmer’s keynote presentation!! (Apparantly it was an accident when they played it again in the middle of Ballmer’s talk, but hey these things happen!)

Last year Synon had such an impact sponsoring a party with Digital and Microsoft they did it again. With the reputation Synon earned last year, the demand was high at the booth for VIP passes to The House of Blues Bash on Wednesday night. It is safe to say Synon had a major impact as the crowd was lead by the Synon team chanting SYNON-SYNON-SYNON as Ramon Chen, Andrew Lev, Steve Yung and Lynda Reynoso threw t-shirts into a frenzied crowd and raffled Synon leather jackets. Synon was also involved in a private BackOffice party on the other side of the French Quarter for press, analysts and key ISVs to announce the new BackOffice logo requirements.  Microsoft introduced Synon and Obsydian as the premier enterprise NT tool for BackOffice development.

It's safe to say that Synon was everywhere at Tech Ed 98 in New Orleans. Everyone who saw Synon's technologies were extremely impressed. It is safe to say that the World is taking notice as Synon continues to forge ahead as the ultimate tool for developing NT applications.