The future is bright… it's not Java!

001I’ve been talking about this image for around a year in various presentations where we talked about the plans for Studio 2014. As of today to be able to finally present it as a fait accompli feels good… in fact it feels wonderful!  Whilst this is a good headline it’s not everything you get with SP2 and there are some other things in here well worth a mention.  I’m not going to cover them all but I will pick out the headliners that I’m pretty sure people have been asking for.  But let’s start with terminology because after nearly 8-years of reading about Java problems, and that’s just my time with SDL and the Trados based software, this is a historical moment worth relishing.  Quite a nice 30-yr birthday present for Trados too!
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The ATA55 in Chicago and the SDL OpenExchange (now RWS AppStore)… which apps?

001This year at the ATA in Chicago all the tool vendors who attended the event were given the opportunity to run a little “Tool Bar” where attendees could come and ask any question they liked. This was a great initiative, and despite the first day where we were perhaps mistakenly tucked away under the arctic air conditioning in the corner where nobody could see us, I think they were very well attended. Certainly from an SDL perspective we were non-stop from the moment we started till the end of each day. It was a great experience for us as we get to meet lots of new users and many we only speak to by email, or on twitter, and I hope it was an equally great experience for anyone who attended.
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