Last year we reported on the Omnis Developer map set up by Omnis developer and keen Omnis advocate Mark Phillips of Mophilly & Associates. Since setting up the map, on the Google based ZeeMaps site, the number of featured Omnis developers has grown steadily to over 300 (at the time of writing this). To further promote the Omnis map, we have added a more permanent page to the Developer area of this site, which highlights the map and explains how you can add your own marker - and if this wasn't enough, Mark has recently added a help page to his web site providing further explanation of how to add yourself to the map. So now there's no excuse for you not to be featured on the Omnis Developer ZeeMap.

About Mophilly & Associates: Established in 1998 and located in Southern California, Mophilly & Associates are primarily involved in software development for business systems, in a wide range of industries, including mineral, oil and gas management, accounting, inventory, real estate management and investment, and the performing arts. Their principal developer is Mark Phillips, a highly experienced Omnis developer, a very active member of the Omnis community and a frequent speaker at Omnis conferences in North America and Europe. One of their main products is the Molu Software Update Service which helps you update your Omnis applications and keep tabs on end user installations. More info about Mophilly here.

Raining Data Germany have returned from a very successful CeBIT 2008, which took place over six days (4 to 9 March) in Hannover, Germany. Despite the current world economic climate, which has taken a battering in the past few months, and the slight drop in attendance at this, the world's largest IT fair, demand for IT solutions and technology products remains strong in the business and consumer sectors. With this in mind, we were delighted with the number of genuine contacts we made at the show, and, as in previous years, we were able to sign up new customers to our developer programs and services.

With our brand new booth design, including a huge 12m-long banner advertising everything that Omnis can do, members of the RD German office were continually demonstrating Omnis to anybody interested in finding new software development tools. For many people, the strongest arguments for choosing Omnis are its flexible database connectivity, cross-platform development on Windows, Mac and Linux, and the web development possibilities provided by the Omnis Web Client. We met a lot of .NET and Java programmers who were looking for a faster or easier way to build applications, so hopefully after seeing Omnis at CeBIT we will be able to convince them to switch over to Omnis Studio. Overall it has been a great CeBIT for our European sales team and we look forward to welcoming many new Omnis developers in the coming weeks. More info about CeBIT here.

Several of our customers were also exhibiting at CeBIT, including comTeam who were present in the Planet Reseller park. comTeam represents a network of system integrators and IT solution providers based throughout Germany, and is part of ElectronicPartner, Europe's largest retailer & supplier of electrical and technology products. Holger Küchenmeister from comTeam has built a great application using Omnis Web Client, called TradersGuide (www.tradersguide.de requires login), which allows members of the EP alliance to compare real-time information about price and availability of thousands of electrical consumer and business products, from more than one hundred different suppliers (read our case study of the app here). Holger has recently completed another great web application (launched at CeBIT) to allow ElectronicPartner members to compare prices and availability of mobile phone handsets and tariffs from all the main providers - we hope to bring you more information about this application in the coming weeks.

"We would not have been able to achieve such high functionality and performance over the web with any other development environment." Holger Küchenmeister, Senior Omnis developer, comTeam. The TradersGuide (above) is built using the Omnis Web Client plug-in technology.