AJAXWorld News Desk

API Testing and Monitoring

Wed, 16 May 2012 15:23:19 EDT

SmartBear Software has introduced API Complete, a first-of-its-kind solution that enables software developers, testers and IT operations staff to test and monitor the quality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and Web Services in an integrated and streamlined fashion. API Complete helps organizations improve the quality of the increasing number of APIs and Web Services used in Web applications and sites, and can replace the fragmented approach currently used by separate development and operations teams. According to Eric Knipp, Managing VP, Gartner Inc., "New applications will increasingly be constructed using agile practices and DevOps - joint initiatives between development and operations to streamline the rapid, continuous improvement of applications. Furthermore, an increased emphasis on analytics will enable more-focused investment in the areas of applications that really matter to improve user experience, productivity and, ultimately, profitability. Our recommendation is to treat a public Web API as a key component of your Web strategy, not as a bolt-on to an existing project and manage the API with the same care you would your enterprise Web presence." (Predicts 2012: Application Development, December 2, 2011)

Cloud Expo New York: Hosting in the Cloud – What You Need to Know

Tue, 15 May 2012 08:00:00 EDT

If you'd like to be able to use a PaaS offering to quickly and securely deploy your website, blog or web-based application, come see a demo and deep dive on Rackspace Cloud Sites. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jereme Hancock, a Rackspace Cloud Sites Linux Systems Administrator, will walk you through load balancing, planning capacity, managing DNS and your domains as well as setting up WordPress on Cloud Sites, MySQL DB's, and everything you need to know to optimize your web hosting needs on the cloud.

Cloud Expo New York: Making the Enterprise Comfortable with the Cloud

Thu, 10 May 2012 05:15:00 EDT

In spite of the great strides the cloud industry has made in addressing security and integration concerns, large enterprises (e.g., banks, insurance companies, health care firms) continue to be reluctant to adopt the cloud for mission-critical applications. Further, resistance to cloud adoption is now at least as much an issue of misaligned incentives and fear of the unknown as it is about legitimate technology concerns. Breaking the impasse on mission-critical apps often can't be done directly and instead requires proof to be accumulated over a sustained period of time. The trick is to find a way for a customer to kick the tires of the cloud solution in a way that is financially rewarding for all parties.

Performance Management in ‘Big Data’ Applications at Cloud Expo New York

Wed, 09 May 2012 04:30:00 EDT

Do applications using NoSQL still require performance management? Is it always the best option to throw more hardware at a MapReduce job? In both cases, performance management is still about the application, but “Big Data” technologies have added a new wrinkle. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Michael Kopp, Technology Strategist at dynaTrace Software, will explain some of the main application performance problems of “Big Data” applications and how to solve them.

General Session at Cloud Expo: From CIO to Chief Innovation Officer

Tue, 08 May 2012 08:15:00 EDT

The opportunity for today’s IT leaders is to transform IT by leveraging the new ecosystem of services that liberate IT from a technology focus to an information and innovation focus. In his general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Rich Taggart, Lead Partner at SHI, will offer a step-by-step approach to revitalizing IT as an innovation leadership organization. Rich Taggart has over 25 years of experience in a variety of roles in IT and management. Prior to joining SHI, he was the Senior Vice President and Corporate CIO at the Walt Disney Company in Burbank, California. In this role, he was responsible for support of the Disney Corporate organization which included brand management, human resources, legal, and other corporate functions and for support of departmental and global shared services applications.

Cloud Expo New York: Embracing the Mobile Cloud from Start to Finish

Fri, 04 May 2012 06:00:00 EDT

As workers continue to demand business apps on their connected devices, the mobile cloud will play a key role in changing the enterprise IT landscape forever. The mobile cloud provides users with the ability to go beyond the capabilities of their smart devices by offering unlimited data storage, processing services and other functions not native to the devices – typically through the intermediary of mobile apps. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Faraz Syed, President, Keynote DeviceAnywhere, will discuss how, to make it work, companies must plan for the whole application life cycle from development and testing through to monitoring, or risk failing to realize the potential of the mobile cloud.

Cloud Expo New York: The Distributed and Decentralized Cloud

Thu, 03 May 2012 02:00:00 EDT

While many companies are leveraging Cloud Computing to limit their infrastructure and footprint, the reality is cloud computing is driving a massive data center build out. In fact, this data center expansion is growing at an unprecedented scale and is not sustainable based on the parallel growth in data and storage requirements. This is ironic given the spirit of the Internet is decentralized, distributed architecture, where global bandwidth, processing power, content and infrastructure are accessible via the largest peer-to-peer network in history. In their session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Margaret Dawson, Vice President of Marketing for Symform, and Praerit Garg, President and Co-founder of Symform, will challenge the audience to think about their own infrastructure and cloud strategy with a distributed filter. They will review distributed cloud models you can leverage today, as well as discuss the inherent benefits and challenges of a decentralized approach. This is a vendor-agnostic session with no product pitch.

‘Google Totally Slimed Sun’: Gosling

Tue, 01 May 2012 08:15:00 EDT

After Sun’s ex-CEOs Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz testified for and against Oracle, respectively, last week at the Oracle v Google infringement trial, Java creator James Gosling, who hasn’t been able to hold a job at either Oracle or Google for more than a few months, waded into the discussion over the weekend on Oracle’s side. “Just because Sun didn’t have patent suits in our genetic code doesn’t mean we didn’t feel wronged,” he wrote on his web site. “While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun.”

Announcing JReport 11: Advanced Data Visualization and Dashboards

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:00:00 EDT

“JReport 11 continues our mission to deliver data visualization, discovery, and self-service tools to our users on all modern platforms,” noted Dr. Bing Yao, President of Jinfonet Software, on the release of JReport 11. The new release, which provides advanced data visualization with a powerful dashboard system and a mobile solution, features 40+ chart types and styles now enhanced with live charting including motion, real-time, and scrollable charts. Motion charts allow users to dynamically view data trends by auto-playing chart parameters. For example, you can put a chart in motion to show month-by-month changes over the course of a year. Real-time charts enable any web services data feed to be displayed and refreshed automatically. It can be used for monitoring applications, including system performance, stock charts, and real time applications. Scrollable charts let users easily zoom in and out on the chart axis for inspection of details.

appzero announces availability of zapp cloud migrator

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EDT

The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications to any cloud, appzero took a market-setting step forward today with the release of zapp cloud migration. This technology extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in. Applications packaged by zapp can be copied and run on any cloud or data center server with the ease of an enterprise app store. This capability is well suited to hybrid/federated cloud scenarios in which enterprise workloads are moved on premise or to clouds in response to business requirements. For use cases that call for ease of application on-boarding with no further planned movement, appzero also offers a dissolve function. Upon deployment, dissolve removes the appzero packaging, installing the application to the OS.

The Web – Changing the Way We Work

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:00:00 EDT

The web is fundamentally changing the way we work – is your company ready? Intrigued by how more than 4 million businesses are using Google’s cloud to work in the future? Join us as we bring Google’s highly anticipated annual gathering of business leaders together to hear: Industry experts shed light on emerging business models Customers share stories of business transformation Our product experts unveil new products Our executives answer your questions

Workday Reportedly Hires Bankers for IPO

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:00:00 EDT

Workday, the SaaS house co-founded by PeopleSoft veterans David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to lead its anticipated IPO according to Reuters and heard from “several sources familiar with the situation.” It’s supposed to be one of tech’s biggest IPOs this year although everything will look small after the Facebook extravaganza. Workday sells HR and financial management software to business and has raised $250 million from its VCs, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ investment arm.

SoftLayer Adds High-Performance Computing to Platform

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EDT

Scientists, engineers and software developers are always looking for innovative ways to accelerate performance and shorten computational cycles. SoftLayer is looking to help them out by offering a new high-performance computing (HPC) cloud-enabled solution consisting of servers powered by the latest GPUs (graphics processing units) from NVIDIA. SoftLayer’s new offering provides an on-demand, consumption-based model for high-performance computing (HPC) users looking to meet the most compute-intensive environments. These environments include traditional HPC fields such as data mining, numerical and seismic analysis as well as advertising agencies, game developers and interactive media firms with needs including video processing and 3D rendering.

IBM Buying Varicent Software

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:15:00 EDT

IBM has gotten as predictable in its acquisitions as it used to be in its suits. It’s buying another analytics house. This time it’s Varicent Software from up Toronto way. And again IBM isn’t saying what it’s paying. Nine-year-old Varicent does analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. More specifically, it automates and analyzes the collection and reporting of sales data across finance, sales, HR and IT. Blue figures it can be used horizontally, and combined with other stuff in its grab bag delivered through on-premise or cloud models. Les Rechan, the general manager of business analytics at IBM, said the Varicent purchase would advance Blue’s efforts to get analytics into the hands of front-line employees in the name of improving the bottom line.

Rackspace Launches Next Generation Cloud Powered by OpenStack

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:15:00 EDT

Rackspace on Monday launched new cloud capabilities featuring the world’s first large-scale, production ready next generation cloud, powered by OpenStack and backed by Fanatical Support. Built on OpenStack, the next generation cloud incorporates a robust portfolio of cloud solutions such as Cloud Servers, Cloud Databases, Cloud Block Storage, Cloud Networks, a completely new cloud Control Panel, Cloud Monitoring and support for the OpenStack API. “The open era of the cloud is a reality and Rackspace has positioned itself at the forefront of this massive, technological shift,” said Lanham Napier, CEO of Rackspace. “We’re drawing a line in the sand against proprietary cloud providers. With this launch, Rackspace is providing an open cloud alternative, backed by Fanatical Support and our core expertise on OpenStack, to deliver a strong product portfolio that will help customers navigate their way through an increasingly complex cloud environment.”

AWS Offers Un-Google Search

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:45:00 EDT

The Amazon cloud now has a beta Amazon CloudSearch and it’s notably not Google or anybody else’s search. It leverages the A9 technology that powers search for Amazon.com so it’s described as fast, fully managed and highly scalable. Amazon says businesses can integrate it into their AWS-hosted web sites and applications. According to AWS VP Adam Selipsky, “For many organizations, search plays a major role in how their customers experience their product or service – businesses need a sophisticated search capability to help their customers find the right information quickly. Implementing rich search functionality has traditionally been very expensive and time consuming due to the complexity of the technology required. Amazon CloudSearch frees customers from worrying about all of these complexities so they can easily launch powerful search functionality and pay only for the resources they use.”

Compuware Corporation Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 New York

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:45:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites.

Cloud Expo New York: TOSCA – An Emerging Cloud Portability Standard

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:45:00 EDT

Cloud provider lock-in creates risk and reduces the flexibility, one of the key benefits of cloud computing. Your business, regulatory, and technical requirements will likely change, but the current state-of-the-art makes it difficult and expensive to move cloud applications and services to alternate cloud providers that may be better able to address your evolving quality-of-service, geographic, and other requirements. OASIS TOSCA is a new, emerging standard being developed by industry leaders that will greatly reduce that burden for cloud applications and services in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments. In their session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Paul Lipton, VP of Industry Standards and Open Source at CA Technologies; Diane Mueller, Cloud Evangelist at ActiveState; Laurent Liscia, Executive Director at OASIS, and Dhiraj Pathak, Business Technology Advisor, Cloud Builder at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, will provide an overview of TOSCA that will help you understand and prepare for the impact of this new technology.

Proxy Fight over Yahoo Takes to the Web

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:08:00 EDT

This being the 21st century, dissident stockholder Third Point LLC has taken its nascent proxy fight over the soul of Yahoo to the web. Under a “vacancy” sign, it’s set up a precedent-setting blog at www.valueyahoo.com where it intends to pick apart the litany of Yahoo’s missteps to convince its fellow investors that the company’s destiny would be better off in savvier hands like those of the four pretty high-profile independent directors it’s proposed should sit on the Yahoo board. The site is done up in Yahoo’s signature purple and there’s a linking Facebook page. (You will of course remember that Yahoo’s new CEO Scott Thompson, ex of PayPal, is suing Facebook for infringing Yahoo patents.) Third Point says, “We created ValueYahoo as a guide for our fellow Yahoo shareholders who want change at one of technology’s most valuable – and sadly, we believe, most mismanaged – companies. We share your desire for a new path forward, and here you will find our case for change, along with ways to join our campaign.”

AOL Looking to Monetize Its Patents

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:00:00 EDT

AOL has hired Evercore Partners to drum up a buyer for its 800-odd patents as well as drum up some strategic options for the place, according to Bloomberg. AOL shareholder Starboard Value LP claims the patent portfolio might yield upwards of $1 billion in licensing income. They are said to cover Internet advertising, e-commerce and communications services, “foundational” widgetry Microsoft or Google might be interested in. CEO Tim Armstrong recently described the portfolio as “beachfront property in East Hampton.” However, Bloomberg talked to patent advisor M-Cam Inc, which said the patents were at best only worth $290 million, nowhere near the ocean. The company’s otherwise in a pickle with its dial-up Internet business drying up, advertising growth slow and revenues off. Apparently it hasn’t been able to strike a deal with private equity.

OpenXava 4.4: Rapid Java Web Development

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:45:00 EDT

OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications. OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without code generation. OpenXava 4.4 has some new interesting features

SmartBear Advances Load Testing for Web Services and APIs

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:45:00 EDT

SmartBear Software on Wednesday introduced loadUI Pro and upgraded soapUI, providing software testers with an integrated toolset to improve the quality of Web Services and API source code developed for today's desktop, cloud, mobile and Web applications. loadUI Pro is the first commercially available version of the popular Open Source Web Services load testing tool. soapUI 4.5, the world's most popular Open Source functional testing solution used by more than 800,000 testers worldwide to ensure the quality of their APIs and Web Services, is also now more tightly integrated with loadUI. Today's software applications have become a complex composition of internally and externally sourced Web Services and API protocols that must be flexible enough to scale and grow, and robust enough to perform under load. To ensure their quality, it is critical to conduct meticulous functional and load testing during pre-deployment to identify and resolve problems early, as well as continuous monitoring and regression testing post-deployment to ensure ongoing quality of service and availability.

Turkcell to Offer Cloud Services

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:30:00 EDT

Turkcell, Turkey’s biggest mobile phone company, has put HP cloud widgetry in its data centers so it can offer its business customers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Communications-as-a-Service (CaaS) through a customized, online marketplace. It’s hoping to become a one-stop shop for cloud-based services for businesses in Turkey and perhaps beyond. It’s gone with HP’s CloudSystem Service Provider, which includes hardware, software and services, all integrated to streamline the on-boarding and operation of IaaS and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), including CaaS (messaging, collaboration and voice), business applications, device management and security.

Yahoo Promised Proxy Fight

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EDT

Yahoo said late Sunday that it has named three independent board members in an attempt to foil Third Point, its largest stockholder, from staging a proxy fight at the next stockholders meeting whenever that is. Third Point said it offered “several significant compromises to strike a deal and avoid a proxy contest. Today, the board has shown yet again that they are unable to execute deals that are in the company’s best interests. Sadly for shareholders – who will once more bear the costs – the consequence of the board’s refusal to accept Third Point’s shareholder-friendly proposals will be a time-consuming and distracting proxy contest that the company can ill-afford…. In the absence of independent shareholder oversight, the Yahoo boards of the past five years have given shareholders five CEOs and strategic plans in as many years and seriously damaged the value of the core business, a fact masked only by the increasing value of Yahoo’s Asian assets. Since the board has left us with no choice but to take our case directly to our fellow shareholders.”

Cloud Expo NY: Offering Enterprise Level Software Apps as a SaaS Solution

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EDT

SHI International has a 22 year history as a Value Added Reseller and technology provider to the IT industry. It continues to build by leveraging its strengths and long-standing relationships and is now offering one of the most robust Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS ) cloud solutions available in the market today. In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Jeff Gibson, Lead Partner for SHI Enterprise Solutions, will host a panel discussion with executives from several software publishers offering their applications in the SHI cloud. This will be a discussion about the decision to work with SHI as their cloud service provider to run their applications as a SaaS solution.

Zumbox Sets Up Joint Venture in Oz

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:45:00 EDT

Zumbox, the American digital mail start-up, has changed its overseas strategy. Rather than try to involve the local postal operator – as it has once with New Zealand Post – it’s going to go it alone. It’s starting in Australia where its wholly owned licensing arm, Zumbox Software Inc, has just climbed in bed with two big publicly traded mail outsourcers to create a joint venture called Digital Post Australia (DPA) that will offer consumers a way to get their paper mail electronically. Digital Post Australia is supposed to be the first digital postal system in Australia. Zumbox CEO John Payne, who’s on DPA’s board, claims that Zumbox is “seeing high demand for digital alternatives to the current postal system, both here in the US and abroad.”

Opscode's Commercial Customer Base Surges to Hundreds

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:00:00 EDT

Opscode, a provider of cloud infrastructure automation, on Monday announced that Ancestry.com, Decide.com, EDO Interactive, LAN Airlines, Marshall University and SolutionSet are among a rapidly growing base of companies using Opscode's Hosted Chef and Private Chef to enable rapid deployment of new infrastructure and applications, while significantly reducing IT costs and complexity. These customers, which range from Fortune 500 enterprises to small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB's) spanning a broad range of industries, are turning to Opscode to automate their IT infrastructure amidst rapid adoption of scale-out IT, including virtualization and cloud computing.

Cloud Expo New York: Workspace as a Service

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EDT

As IT Executives continue to focus on IT as a Service, how are the convergence of desktop, laptop and other intelligent mobile devices changing end-user computing? How is the rapid move to Software as a Service impacting this space? How does the end-user experience changing change our “personal computing” world through an “application store-front” interface? Will it spill over into how we work as professionals? How is cloud computing involved? In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Sal Bruno, Lead Partner - Professional Services at SHI Enterprise Solution Services, will discuss these questions. The SHI Team is leveraging its initial Cloud Offering: Infrastructure as a Service to develop a follow on offering for the “workspace” to be delivered anytime, anywhere, to any device. Bruno will share a perspective of how the world of end-user computing is about to dramatically change in the enterprise and how to best prepare for it.

Book Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 EDT

All in all if you are building SQL Server 2102 Reporting Services Reports, or if you are interested in learning how to, you owe it to yourself to get this book. Over the years I have been on quite a few projects and there have been very few if any that did not require some type of reporting. For a while that meant Crystal Reports, but when SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) hit the scene, Crystal Reports began to fade on Microsoft projects. That was especially true if I had my way. I was the first person to champion SSRS in state projects in Pennsylvania. That was quite a battle but well worth it!

dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.6 Now Supports Firefox 11

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:18:00 EDT

With the new release of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition you have Beta support for the Firefox 11 browser and therefore you can test the performance of your Web sites with the latest available Browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft. The AJAX Edition now supports Firefox 10, 11 and Internet Explorer 8, 9! To help you prepare for the future we added Internet Explorer 10 (developer preview). If you also take care of the legacy browsers and automated browser testing, you should take a look at the dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium which helps you to guarantee a good performance for legacy, current and future browsers.

dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.5 Delivers Beta Support for IE 10 and Firefox 10

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:21:00 EST

With the new release of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition you have beta support for the Firefox 10 browser and can test the performance of your websites with the latest available browsers from Mozilla and Microsoft. The new dynaTrace AJAX Edition also helps you prepare for the future. With support for the Internet Explorer 10 developer preview you’re now able to start testing the performance of your website before Microsoft releases its new browser. However, you are not only testing the performance of the latest browsers – to test the web performance of legacy browsers take a look at the dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium, which helps guarantee a good performance for legacy, current and future browsers.

Internet Explorer 9 & Firefox 8/9 Support with dynaTrace Ajax Edition 3.4

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:30:00 EST

After announcing support for Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 8 and 9 in dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest versions in the dynaTrace AJAX Edition. The latest version of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.4 therefore gives you full JavaScript, AJAX, Network and Rendering analysis support for Mozilla Firefox 8 and 9 as well as Internet Explorer 8 and 9. You can also check out the Release Notes for a more detailed description of the enhancements.

How Quickly the Mighty Have Fallen

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:30:00 EST

On November 9, Adobe announced in a blog post[1] that it had decided to cease efforts to develop browser plugins for mobile devices to play Flash, indicating that HTML5 was “the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” In case that sounds like Adobe abandoned Flash entirely, it should be noted that Adobe indicated their intentions to continue to develop the AIR player for mobile devices, so that the role for Flash on mobile devices would be restricted to native apps, just not browser-based apps. A few days later in another blog post[2], Adobe also noted that it was releasing the entire Flex SDK (used by the Flash Builder IDE to generate Flash RIA applications) to open source, indicating that “In the long-term, we believe HTML5 will be the best technology for enterprise application development.”

SmartBear Software Advances Load Testing for Websites with RIAs

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:00 EST

SmartBear Software has unveiled LoadComplete 2.0, the latest version of the company's load testing tool for Web applications. Featuring new support for rich Internet applications (RIAs), LoadComplete 2.0 now makes it easy to create and run realistic load tests, without scripting, for websites built using Adobe Flash and Flex, AJAX, and Microsoft Silverlight technologies. New data presentation and reporting options make it easier for users to control data parameters and interpret and diagnose results to improve the performance, reliability, and user experience of Web applications. Mathijs Groen, QA Engineer, Benelux, at Kewill B.V., said, "LoadComplete 2.0 is an economical and efficient tool for us to more easily test the performance of our rich Internet-based applications and compare performance statistics by running it on several types of application servers. This enables us to better assist customers by providing them with the most ‘smoothly running' framework."

Fifteen Minutes to Type 5 JDBC Success

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:00:00 EDT

Have you ever run into one of the many limitations of Type 4 JDBC drivers? Ever wished there was an EASY way around them? If you haven’t already, now is the time to check out Progress DataDirect’s Type 5 JDBC Drivers. In this short video you will learn how to install and test the benefits of the Type 5 JDBC driver in your own environment. After viewing this video, you can start enjoying all that Type 5 has to offer in 15 minutes or less. Guaranteed!

Sun Settles Eolas’ Java Claims

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 07:45:00 EDT

Remember Eolas, the one-man company whose 1998 browser patent struck so much fear in the heart of Would Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee that he personally asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to invalid it as a “major impediment to the operation of the web”? Well, Eolas rushed out Monday to say that it had settled with Sun Microsystems that morning. Naturally the terms weren’t disclosed. That leaves another 18 defendants to go. In October of 2009 Eolas sued 23 brand name companies in the infamous plaintiff-leaning Eastern District of Texas – specifically faulting Adobe’s Flash and Shockwave; Apple’s QuickTime, Safari for Windows and Mac and Apple desktops and laptops; Google’s Chrome for Windows and Mac; and Sun’s Java and JavaFX – and that was after finally settling up with Microsoft, its test case, two years before.

My Two-Year-Old Daughter Sofia Facing Life-Long Disability in Syria

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:30:00 EDT

The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received an updated letter on Thursday, April 7, 2011, from the State Department on Sofia's welfare in Syria. Sofia was abducted by her mother from the United States to Syria last July, following her diagnosis of GDD with possible autism. She had 13 remaining medical appointments left at the time of her abduction, none of which she was able to keep.

Early Bird Registration Savings for Cloud Expo New York to Expire Friday

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:45:00 EDT

Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, 2011 early bird registration will expire on Friday. Register now for a Gold Pass for the 8th International Cloud Expo on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City and save $500 on your full conference pass. Gold Pass Delegates will receive full conference access for four days to all conference sessions at Cloud Computing Conference & Expo as well as the Virtualization Conference & Expo June 6-9. Gold Pass registration includes: lunch on Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Welcome Reception on Day 1, and refreshment breaks, collectible conference bag and access to all conference sessions including all technical sessions, the exhibit floor, keynotes, vendor technology presentations, Cloud Computing Bootcamp and SYS-CON.TV Power Panels.

My Abducted Two-Year-Old American Guest Worker Daughter in Syria

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:06:00 EDT

Since her abduction by her mother last summer, my two-year-old US citizen daughter, who is in ailing health, remains in her abducted country of Syria under the immigration status of "Palestinian Immigrant Worker." Sofia needs to appear every three months before Syrian immigration authorities to renew her "guest worker" visa, stamped in her American passport. Syria, one of the most oppressed regimes in the world together with North Korea and Iran, does not offer many human rights, freedom or democracy, nor does it recognize the International Hague Convention for Child Abduction. Not being a Syrian citizen Sofia has no civil rights. For the past seven months she did not receive any medical care for her GDD - Global Development Delay condition with autism. Since she is an out-of-status American child, she is also not able to enroll in any accredited child care facilities in Syria.

A Bedtime Story for Sofia Who Remains Abducted in Syria

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:15:00 EDT

Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month, studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview. On Monday, she also published a detailed article on Sofia that was picked up by a dozen or so media outlets around the world during the week. When Sofia returns safely home, she will pay her first visit to Diane at the Fox News headquarters in New York City. The following is a short "bedtime story" for my daughter while she remains abducted in Syria.