For those that keep track of these things, it was 5 years ago today that Revelation Technologies released Advanced Revelation 3.12 and officially put the product line to bed. My, how time flies. When I think of all that has happened in the computing world, and the RTI world in all those years, it amazes me how so many of the same people are still here. I'm also amazed that some of the new people that have joined our disfunctionally happy family seem like they've been here for ever.

And, on a personal note, I've been extremely proud over the years as to how everyone has praised 3.12 as a must have release. As I told a good friend once…

If you don't try to make differences in the life of people you'll never meet, then life is too small and self-contained. Programming should not be done just for the self satisfaction, though that is important. You should write hoping that someone, somewhere, will use it to make a better life. Once you lose that, you lose sight of the software you're trying to write.

Also, all the praise for 3.12 is not mine alone. It was a culmination of efforts of people, some whose names you know, and some you don't, that worked on all the versions, from Revelation to ARev 3.11 who placed their own visions and their own hard work into making something special. 3.12 would not have been possible without them, and the work of the people who trained me in the code. Janie Millard, who did most of the work assembling and outling all the problems, and who fixed most of the ancient bugs, Pat McNerthney and Bre Anderson, who explained meta and the ASM code which made the whole process much clearer, Cameron Purdy, Mark Martin, Gene Glyser, John Van Burren, Darren McGurran and Ian Stuard, who were always there to listen to me bitch and moan and finally, Jim Acqaviva, who believed and trusted in me enough to let me finish the task. Thanks Jim, I hope you didn't regret your decision!

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Aaron..

Here Here Here! Well said and on target (as usual). Thanks for remembering.

Don Miller

C3 Inc.

Congradulations! I just upgraded from 2.12 last month. My database of ]20 million records, is now served to 60 clients, using several "application servers" on a switched, 100 mbs network. It screams! Sure is nice to find a 5 year old product that supports state-of-the-art networking. Now if it only did IP!

Thanks to all, for the hard work and an excelent product.

wow time flies! Thanks to all and on to the future….

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