I’m glad to announce you that my dear friend and HEC Paris fellow Raphaël Encaoua (left on the picture, I’m on his right, and as you can notice, we’re both thinking hard) joins the Tech IT Easy adventure as a guest blogger.

Raphaël is a would-be entrepreneur in the field of medical tourism (see his dedicated blog right here), with a genuine curiosity towards information technology: Raphaël is willing to share with us his thoughts on how he will leverage web technologies in his new medical tourism venture. On top of that, alongside with Lucien who had joined us to blog about Web 2.0 & China, Raphaël will be our Asian market expert: Raphaël just came back from an 18-month long investment banking internship in South East Asia (Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia etc.). His understanding of this key market will undoubtedly be something to watch in his upcoming posts that will probably also deal with web medicine, and the use of information technology in the health & tourism industries in general.

So it seems the Tech IT Easy team, now formed of Alexandre (French & Russian, technology – media – telecommunication M&A analyst in London), Kari (Finn, IT project manager @ a leading energy corporation in Helsinki & Stockholm), Steve (French, background in strategy consulting & online media management), Lucien (French & Chinese, IT consultant, Web 2.0 expert), Vincent (German & Dutch, former marketer @ Sony, writing a thesis on incubators in the Netherlands), myself and now Raphaël, keeps growing and growing. Guys, I’m so glad that you’ve found in Tech IT Easy a platform that fits your will to share your passion about technology. I guess and hope there will be more to come, so that we can move to a proper Tech IT Easy – not ‘jeremyfain’, URL and perhaps monetize our (quality?) content.

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Syntec Informatique, a French independent IT professionals union, recently published the results of a poll it conducted amongst a significant sample of IT professionals (source: Syntec Croissance Editeurs, Collection Théma TIC, N°8, March 2007) regarding the technology trainings software developers at software publishers located in France are asking for. There you go with the results:

1. .Net / C#: 48%
2. J2EE / Java: 37%
3. Open Source environments: 36%
4. SOA architectures: 28%
5. Oracle environments: 24%
6. Websphere environments: 20%
7. C++: 17%
8. Other technologies: 12%

The report also provides many interesting figures, amongst which another set of data related to tech-related trainings wanted by sales people. 60% of sales reps @ software publishers in France want to learn about ‘technology in general’ (‘un vernis technologique supplémentaire’), 51% feel like learning about the .Net environment, and 30% of them look forward to learning about open source environments.

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