• a first Roadmap for the xServer 1.12 release

    Here in Karlsruhe, it’s quite quiet and peaceful at the moment: Last weekend was Pfingsten (can anyone tell me, what the English term for this holiday is?) with monday a holiday, tomorrow’s a holiday. Nevertheless, work goes on and our goals are ambitious: We are planning to release the xServer 1.12 release around Christmas 2010, with a prerelease available in November.…

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  • PTV MapServer released

    What a week!

    One of our developers celebrated the birth of his second daughter. Our Product Manager celebrated his sons baptism.  There are a lot of things going on, we don’t realize in our every day business, when we sit together in meetings and discuss business issues.…

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  • Meeting our customers

    This year, we decided to go out and see our customers more often. This is not really a new idea, other departments at PTV go out on roadshows frequently – well, we’re only starting now.

    We decided to call our event “Impulsnachmittag” – as the first events are scheduled in Germany – literally translated as “Impulse-Afternoon”.…

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  • Planning the next release

    Today, we (Product Management, Developers and a few internal customers are sitting together, to create a roadmap for the next version of the xServers, Version 1.12.

    During the last Mapware Conference, customers “complained”, that they were shown features which we announced and they had to wait half a year, until these were shipped.…

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  • A new release

    Today, we have released a new bunch of xServers. This release sureley is a developers release, as it makes developing with the xServers much easier: Uniform database handling, a uniform framework based on cxf and Java6 and comprehensive code samples are some of these features.…

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  • For starters

    Introduction of who we are and what we are blogging about.

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