Optima

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed.

Optima Systems Ltd¶

Firstly, I am pleased to be able to welcome John (Jake) Jacob to Optima as a full-time member of staff. Many of you will already know John for his work with Vector and within BAA London. We have a few more challenges for him now and we hope to keep him very busy.

Secondly, as you may already heard, we have in collaboration with Dyalog taken on three trainee APL programmers; James Greeley, Samuel Gutsell and Shaquil Sidiki. They started with us in August and have attended their first APL course and APL conference already. Take a look at their blog[1] and see how they are getting on.

We have had a fantastic year and have never been busier. Our COSMOS product which some of you have seen me demo looks like it has found its first customer and we are hopeful of a number of others in the UK and US. Development proceeds apace and is keeping us focused shall we say.

Interest in our products and proposals is currently at an all-time high and we have now just started to work with UK Trade & Investment and market ourselves properly outside of the UK. There will be more news on this in the next edition of Vector.

Other work, coming in from new clients, is becoming increasingly web based and we are now actively looking at the new technologies to see how they might help us. APL remains very much the cornerstone of our work but now we find ourselves interfacing to an ever increasing toolset.

These days it’s all about finding enough hours in the day. With this in mind I am also very pleased to be able to announce that Peter Merritt is now our APL Team Leader and Gilgamesh Athoraya our R&D and Technical Analyst.

References¶

http://threeblindmiceapl.wordpress.com