Mi COMDDAP Reflection

THE COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS,
DISTRIBUTORS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION
OF THE PHLIPPINES (COMDDAP)
The vision of promoting and elevating the standards of Information technology (IT) in the
Philippines fueled a group of prominent computer companies to form the Computer
Distributors and Dealers Association of the Philippines or COMDDAP. Its initial member companies
represent the world’s leading makers and providers of computer products, solutions
and peripherals.
In 1997, the manufacturing sector – represented by industry leaders Hewlett Packard, Epson and
Compaq, among others – was integrated into the COMDDAP membership, making the
association a more diverse representation of the IT sector and thus the new name, COMPUTER
MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Since then, COMDDAP has been maintained and financed by its members through dues, fees,
contributions or donations, and bannered by these specific objectives:
1. Promote the use of information technology and elevate its standards in the
Philippines;
2. Make computers affordable and available to the masses;
3. Provide and create opportunities for users to develop themselves to their fullest
potentials;
4. Supply the market with quality products at reasonable prices with good after-sales
support;
5. To work closely with the government, the private sector and international entities in
promoting the use of information technology;
6. Provide a forum of discussion on matters relating to the computer industry; and
7. Foster anf cultivate harmony, cordiality and camaraderie among the members so that
they can work together as one for the benefit of the industry.
Twenty (20) years hence, COMDDAP has grown not only in terms of membership, but also in the
activities it holds and organizations it chooses to collaborate with.
COMDDAP counts among its achievements the holding of the Annual COMDDAP exhibit, more
popularly known as the COMDDAP EXPO, which has become a consistent crowd drawer and
has in itself set new records in terms of the quality of exhibit area, exhibitors, visitors, and venues.
In fact, COMDDAP EXPO in 1999 marked the first exhibit to have adapted an upgraded booth
shell schemes.
The annual COMDDAP endeavor encourages its participants to launch their products and
services, as well as hold seminars with a variety of topics in the areas of technology, trends,
applications, and information management.
COMDDAP ‘s biggest leap was being able to cross boarders or go regional by bringing the
exposition down south in Cebu and Davao City, and to even greater heights in the cities of
Baguio and Naga, and most recently, in Iloilo City.

Apart from its exhibits, the organization holds COMDDAP Leaning Center Project and Training
the Trainors program. This is part of the civic and social responsibility programs that the
association has vowed to pursue. The project provides public high school students and public
school teachers the opportunity to learn basic computer theories, get hands-on experience, and
become familiar with computers.
COMDDAP is likewise involved with the Media-Citizen’s Quick Count (MCQC) operations in
response to the call of national interest. The bulk of equipment and technical support for this
endeavor were provided for by the member-companies.
COMDDAP has also pledged to protect its members in addressing the growing issue of software
piracy, a practice that has affected and stunted the growth of the local software industry, as well
as the country’s trade relations with other countries .In pushing this, COMDDAP has expressed
its full support in the local manufacturing of DOS at an affordable price and with after-sales
support, as well as launching a massive educational campaign.
Indeed, COMDDAP has gone a long way from a mere assemblage of premier IT companies and
enthusiasts. With the support and enthusiasm of its member-companies, COMDDAP expects and
looks forward to accomplishing more worthwhile projects in the future as COMDDAP is committed
to the stable growth of the Philippine computer industry.

http://www.comddap.org/Dossier.pdf
Last July 2-4, 2009, THE COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF THE PHLIPPINES (COMDDAP) held a 3-days long exhibit at the Grand Ballroom, Apo View Hotel, Davao City. Luckily for me, for us, I was able to attend to a seminar held at the place. I attended last July 2, 2009 to be exact. I arrived at 1pm together with my classmates and friends. It started pretty late, that’s why the seminar started around 2:00pm. I attended two seminars. First is the ERIC DMS (Brilliant Dealer Management System) and the other is about THE HP and NEXUS. The HP and NEXUS tackled about this THIN CLIENT. According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
“A thin client (sometimes also called a lean or slim client) is a client computer or client software in client-server architecture networks which depends primarily on the central server for processing activities, and mainly focuses on conveying input and output between the user and the remote server. In contrast, a thick or fat client does as much processing as possible and passes only data for communications and storage to the server.
The term was coined in 1993 by Tim Negris, VP of Server Marketing at Oracle Corp., while working with company founder Larry Ellison on the launch of the landmark Oracle7 release of the company's flagship relational database management system (RDBMS). Ellison had charged Negris with finding a way to boldly differentiate Oracle's server-centric software from the decidedly desktop-oriented products of then-rival Microsoft. Thin Client became Ellison's relentless battle cry, repeated in hundreds of speeches, interviews and articles attendant to the release of Oracle7 and many other products after that.
Many thin client devices run only web browsers or remote desktop software, meaning that all significant processing occurs on the server. However, recent devices marketed as thin clients can run complete operating systems such as Debian Linux, qualifying them as diskless nodes or hybrid clients. Some thin clients are also called "access terminals." Many people that already have computers want the same functionality that a thin client has. Computers can simulate a thin client in a single window (as thru a browser) or with a separate operating system boot-up. Either way, these are often called "fat clients" to differentiate them from thin clients and computers without thin-client functionality.
As a consequence, the term "thin client", in terms of hardware, has come to encompass any device marketed as, or used as, a thin client in the original definition – even if its actual capabilities are much greater. The term is also sometimes used in an even broader sense which includes diskless nodes.”
The seminar about thin clients caught my attention with its benefits to the environment especially nowadays we are facing the problem about global warming. It’s so nice to hear that people invent things just to protect the world, though we all know that technology is one of the factors of global warming. But still people do try to help our world in a simple way, such conducting a seminar which presenting new technologies that could somehow prevent the climate change.