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I originally named this group "Amadeus IT Solutions" as my former business. Amadeus is the name of my software development framework. The first version was released in 1985. It supported Modula-2. The second version,, Amadeus-2, still for Modula-2, supported virtual text windows and lots of nifty features that were still quite uncommon, in those days. It got a full-page review in BYTE magazine by Dick Pountain, one of the major IT journalists. In 1994, I created Amadeus-3 for Oberon-2, the first fully object-oriented framework for Windows. Some design features are still unique and I can impress IT students with my interface designer to this day, as it does things no one else attempted. I sold about 500 copies to major businesses around the planet over the years and used it myself on large projects, including to write a private banking client and document management system, expert and laboratory systems for DuPont, HP's Telecom-95 scheduling system, a conference hotel reservation system for HP as well as their European salary survey and Swiss employee management. TopScan, a German engineering company that developed laser-based topographic mapping software used Amadeus-3 for their extremely complex user interface. Oberon-2 is more powerful than C++, the code runs faster, it supports full garbage collection and is statically and dynamically safe without any limitations - it was designed to implement operating systems. As it is extremely compact - the entire language is fully documented on 20 pages of very readable text - you can learn it in a day and be productive in a week. And because it is so expressive and readable, one can get an enormous amount of functionality out of very little code -without all the headaches from "popular" programming languages. My entire banking application that Royal Bank of Canada, private banking, used for 25 years fits into less than 50K lines of Oberon-2 code, yet it provides more functionality than the competion, which is why SYZ bank chose it in 2015.