What’s with Enterprise Core Objects?

My last post was about writing code for Enterprise Core Objects, ECO.

As I intend to write more about ECO, I might as well give you the full story.

Way back when, in 1997, thanks to a series of improbable events I teamed up with Jan Norden, chief architect of Boldsoft and Henrik Jondell, CEO of Boldsoft to write a product called Bold for Delphi. During the next years we expanded the team to include amongst others Jonas Hogstrom (my brother) and we had great fun writing code and doing consultancy work for clients like the Swedish Government, the National Television Broardcast Corporation (SvT), the Swedish Armed Forces and others.

In 2002 we were hired as a team by Borland. We converted Bold for Delphi, a win32 product, to what would eventually become Enterprise Core Objects, a .Net product.

Late 2006 Borland decided to simplify their organization (or something – I was not privy to the discussions in the fancy corner of the C-level corridor) and terminated the Swedish development center, i.e. the ECO team was set free.

The team decided to continue work on the ECO code base and formed Capable Objects AB. Obviously this was done in friendly negotiations with Borland – simply stealing the code base was not an option

As time passed I decided to set my mind to something different and let the others continue the development of what is arguably the best model driven development platform on the planet.

However, despite having a day-time job in a slightly different area of the computer industry I still very much enjoy the concepts and programming model of ECO. Thus, I write the odd application or cobble together some proof of concept code in ECO. It’s those efforts that I have and will blog about.

My current relation to CapableObjects is such that I have no involvement in the daily operations or code cutting, but I do help out with (and host some of) their computer infrastructure and love to give feedback on the product and meet the guys for a beer or two. I still enjoy the benefit of having an email address on the capableobjects.com domain.

With that I consider the full disclosure as presented.

–Jesper Högström