PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, of the all-new Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, of the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
'While the last decade
was focused on the Web,
the next phase in the
evolution of our industry
will be on the
convergence of Web,
mobile and desktop
applications and the
ability to extend
existing applications
with these new
technologies for a
consistent user
...
'We continue to struggle
a bit with what
developers think
'Eclipse' means. They
have heard of it, but
they believe that we are
entirely focused on Java
tools when in fact we are
doing so much more,' says
Mike Milinkovich,
Executive Director of the
Eclipse Foundati...
'We're dedicated to
building the largest
open-source community
dedicated to RIAs,
breaking down the
barriers between
traditional preferred
languages, programming
models and solutions,'
says the co-founder & CEO
of Appcelerator, Jeff
Haynie, in this Exclusive
Q&A...
RIAs offer the potential
to fundamentally change
the user experience and
in doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. The theme of
this October's AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
West is 'Beyond AJAX to
the RIA Era' and the Call
for Papers, which is
currently...
From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roos...
A round-up of the Service
Oriented Architecture
related themes & topics
being discussed in NYC
June 23-24, 2008 by the
world-class speaker
faculty at the 13th
International Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown Manhattan.
From AIR to ZK, this is
an alphabetical round-up
of the fast moving-world
of application
development tools and
frameworks spawned ever
since the appearance of
Google Maps, the
canonical early RIA. The
list includes AIR,
Appcelerator, ATF, Curl,
Dojo, Echo, Eclipse...
'When we speak of
enterprise mash-ups,
composite applications
and software as a service
(SaaS), it's easy to
forget that you actually
need infrastructure
behind the user
experience to make it
happen,' says Gordon Van
Huizen in this exclusive
Q&A with Jeremy Geelan...
In this wide-ranging
interview with
SYS-CON.com David
Linthicum, CEO of
StrikeIron, addresses the
hot new Data Services
trend and the
all-important notion of
enterprise mashups, which
he pinpoints as the
defining technology of
the year ahead. 'I'm
surprised peop...
What drives a technology
CEO or CTO to success in
today's constantly
changing technology
ecosystem? We look at the
question through the lens
of the many interviews
and articles we have
published at SYS-CON.com
which deal, sometimes
only in passing, with
exactly th...
'Data services apply the
same philosophy of reuse
and flexibility that SOA
offers, but to the data
tier,' explains John
Goodson, executive leader
of DataDirect
Technologies, in this
Exclusive Q&A in the
run-up to the inuaugural
DataServices World on
June 24th in N...
'Developers need to
realize that Automated
Defect Prevention
benefits them,' says
Parasoft co-founder & CEO
Dr Adam Kolawa in this
Exclusive Q&A with Java
Developer's Journal. 'But
they won't start
recognizing this until
they see that they have
less work,' Kolawa ...
'Virtualization is
already widely used, but
primarily for the
first-order benefit,
namely server
consolidation,' notes
Citrix CTO Simon Crosby,
in this Exclusive Q&A
with Virtualization
Journal. 'The
second-order benefits of
agility, availability and
manageabili...
'Ten years ago,' Coach
Wei tells Jeremy Geelan
in this exclusive
interview with AJAXWorld
Magazine, 'I was as a
poor graduate student
naive enough to start a
company at the bottom of
the 'dot-bomb' burst. I
learned so much coping
with the 'nuclear
winter,' raising...
When back in 2005 we
asked our globe-girdling
network of industry
executives, enterprise
architects, software
engineers, technology
evangelists, analysts,
and VCs to pinpoint what
they thought the Next Big
Thing would be, only one
respondent singled out
Virtualiza...
'Unlocking content to be
remixed into new business
value' is the driver of
Web 2.0 in the
enterprise, says Rod
Smith, IBM VP of Emerging
Internet Technologies, in
this Exclusive Q&A with
Jeremy Geelan on the
occasion of IBM's release
of a new technology
created by...
2007 was undoubtedly the
year of Social
Networking, but what of
2008? Will '08 be the
year of 'Unified
Communications' or the
year when CMS comes to
stand for 'Community
Management System' - or
even 'Collaboration
Management System'? Or
will it be the year of
th...
A round-up of the overall
themes and topics being
presented at AJAXWorld
2008 East at The
Roosevelt Hotel in
midtown Manhattan, March
18-20, 2008 - including
Enterprise Mashups, Rich
Internet Applications,
Security, Enterprise
AJAX, Silverlight, GWT,
Reverse AJAX...
'The experience that web
application users expect
has changed profoundly as
'RIA' style application
design has become
prevalent,' says
Microsoft's Joe Stagner.
'Companies developing web
applications can't wait
any longer to solidify
their Rich Internet
Application...
'Enough with the new
words already.' That was
how Sean Voisen recently
ended a discussion about
the burgeoning technology
lexicon, which he thinks
can only be explained as
'a ploy to keep
Merriam-Webster in
business.' Voisen, who
designs and builds Rich
Internet A...
90+ speakers - March
18-20, 2008 - from Danny
Allan, Jean-Francois
Arcand, Roland Barcia,
Robb Beal, David Boloker,
Jeff Brown, Shane Bryzak,
Bob Buffone, Robert
Boedigheimer, Kurt Cagle,
Kord Campbell, Marco
Casario, Lauren Cooney,
Douglas Crockford...to
Scott Re...
'Web 2.0' is an example
of what the historian
Daniel Boorstin would
have called 'the Fertile
Verge.' Web 2.0 is also
a Boom Town, and - as
Virginia Postrel points
out - 'Boom towns break
down barriers; they mix
together talent from
everywhere; they
challenge comp...
I am always being told
off by i-technologists
for quoting Picasso as
having said that
computers are useless.
But I still love his
reasoning: 'Because they
can only give you
answers.' Picasso, like
AJAXWorld Magazine, liked
questions. So we thought
we would share w...
Is AJAX fit to serve as
spear carrier for
next-generation Web
technology? That
question, asked by the
San Diego Business
Journal in March 2007,
was answered by the sheer
scale of the last two
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expos, in March (New
York) and September
(Santa...
MySQL's Mårten Mickos has
been speaking out on the
deep background to his
company's decision,
instead of pursuing an
IPO, to allowing Sun to
acquire it. 'We feel like
we have joined a giant
startup,' Mickos gushes,
before singling out
Jonathan Schwartz's
'brillian...
Would Microsoft be able
to use its acquisition of
Yahoo! to 'shake its
obsession with catching
Google and instead look
to the next generation of
the Internet,' asked John
Markoff in The New York
Times yesterday. Writing
in his popular 'Silicon
Valley Memo,' Markoff ...
Virtualization Journal
thought it was time to go
in search of industry
insights into this
fast-growing new IT
market, and so we asked
some of its new and
up-and-coming executives
for their thoughts on
some of the trends
emerging already in 2008.
First, in view of ...
2007 was the undoubtedly
the year of Social
Networking, but what of
2008? Will '08 be the
year of 'Unified
Communications' or the
year when CMS comes to
stand for 'Community
Management System' - or
even 'Collaboration
Management System'? Or
will it be the year of ...
Time magazine has chosen
and posted what it
considers to be the top
50 web sites of 2007 -
sites that show,
'...exceptional style and
smarts, sites that offer
new and improved ways to
access and share content,
generate our own and
otherwise enrich the
online (and ...
Coach Wei, whose Java
credentials are
impeccable, opened up a
can of worms by raising
the issue of why Java's
not in favor any more for
building web sites, even
complex ones. Even a
complex site like
Facebook, Wei noted, is
not written in Java. 'Why
do 'cool kids'...
'HTML has long been at
war with itself,' writes
Yahoo! Architect Douglas
Crockford, one of the
most popular speakers at
AJAXWorld ever since it
began life early in 2006.
'Is it a document format
or is it an application
delivery format? You can
see that confusion in ...
When Microsoft parted
with $240M for a 1.6%
stake in a company with
$140M in revenues and
$30M in profits, was it
over-paying? Conspiracy
theorists were quick to
say that the move was
deliberate, to inflate
the overall value of
Facebook to $15BN and
thereby preven...
The BBC carried a report
yesterday that raises the
alarming possibility of
extending cellphone use
on board airplanes from
just either end of a
journey to throughout the
duration of the flight.
The key to the whole
thing, the technical
trick that circumvents
the p...
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin
HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont
Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P
I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD
PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploys individual
components as .NET
Assemblies and as .NET
Web Services. Version 11
consumes resources of the
default .NET framework as
well as resources of
custom developer-defined
.NET res
I began my career at RCA
Aerospace and Defense in
1983 and worked at MITRE
Corp., BAE Systems, and
the State of NH. I worked
in the defense field
performing software