I want to use this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to a great year 2007!
In 2007, we have continued to make db4o's cutting edge persistence technology available to many more Java and .NET developers, growing our community of registered developers well beyond 30,000, while aggregate downloads approach 2 million.
Also, we have continued to expand our commercial services to meet the growing demand for support and tools to leverage db4o's properties even in the most demanding environments, incl. in embedded devices, grids, Scada systems, automotives or on cellphones. To that end we have formed dedicated application engineering teams and crafted a suite of dDN Enterprise tools and services incl. XtremeConnect which meet the requirements of even the most demanding IT shop.
As a result, we saw the launch of many exciting new commercial products and 100s of open source projects powered by db4o. Our customers do not only include large corporations, but uncounted startups which were born with db4o and will never go back to forgo the cost savings and architectural benefits from using native Java or .NET object persistence.
This success of db4o is based on the unique combination of community participation and commercial engagement, creating the best of both worlds: user empowerment and high software quality combined with responsive expert service and rigorous license indemnification.
We believe that in 2008 there are plenty more opportunities to leverage db4o into mass markets, including Google's Android platform to update the mass market cellphone into a full fledged personal Java device, as well as Microsoft's LINQ initiative, shifting paradigms to very tight language/persistence integration as pioneered by db4o with Native Queries (NQ).
In this spirit we will continue our mission in 2008 and, once again, thank all who have and will contribute to it!
Happy New Year!
Christof Wittig
CEO db4ojects