Sun ONE Studio has been designed to create «a programming experience in  Visual Basic» for developers. This is strange for a tool which purports to show the way in the domain of the design and development of applications. It is clear that a «programming experience in Java» is nowadays less attractive to the majority of developers, under pressure to issue applications within the alloted time and budget. The analysts also point out that Java is a very popular language for personalised applications development, but that the recruitment of competent Java programmers and especially developers who master the latest Java 2 Entreprise Edition (J2EE) specifications can prove difficult and expensive. Whether Sun’s initiative is a success or not, it seems subject to caution. «Seeking a Studio with character, clear and well-situated» Always «in» the current trends, Four J’s will shortly present its own «Studio»: Genero Studio, a Unified Development Environment, which will improve productivity and provide, among others, the possibility for developers to create visual representations for reference. To learn more about this, I invite you to test the preliminary version of Genero Studio. And Genero 1.0 is already on the launching pad. We have had many feedbacks from you and are grateful for them. We know it will be a startling success, as has been the case for our first 2003 quarter, which saw our benefits increase by 30%, as compared to the same period of the previous year. Jean-Georges Schwartz Chief Executive Officer.