OpenEdge 11.1 has lots of new features, including enhancements and benefits across multi-tenancy, productivity and security. But that's not all we worked on. In just about every OpenEdge release we also make some enhancements that enable higher levels of application and/or database performance. Guess...

The latest release of the OpenEdge application development and deployment platform, version 11.1, reinforces our commitment to our customers’ needs for security, privacy and compliance. OpenEdge 11.1 includes security enhancements that simplify user authentication and centralized controls. One of...

OpenEdge 11.0 has been out for a while and the developers are working furiously on OpenEdge 11.1. But what comes after that? What are we doing in the next major release? I can't tell you everything yet, but I do have a couple of things to share. First is a new Eclipse plugin...

Server hardware is incredibly inexpensive nowadays. For example, you can get a Dell 710R with an Intel Xeon 5690 6-core cpu, 32 gigabytes of RAM, a two-port Fibre-Channel host bus adapter, and dual gigabit Ethernet for less than $8000. Folks, that is a pretty stout box. And you can get even larger...

One of the most important and useful new capabilities in the upcoming OpenEdge 11 release (planned for December 2011) is direct support for multi-tenancy in the database. What is multi-tenancy and why would I want one? Read on and I'll tell you. The notion of multi-tenancy arises in the field of...

On November 18 and 19 I had the great pleasure of attending and speaking at the EMEA PUG Challenge conference in Cologne, Germany. This was put on through a collaboration by the various the Progress user groups in Europe.

This was a truly outstanding event. It was extremely well organized,...

We have completed our second Exchange Online, a "virtual conference" on the Intertubes.

All the content will be available for on-demand viewing via web browser until mid December 2010. You can watch the session recordings, listen to the question and answer segments, and download all...

It's still too early and there aren't any. People are starting to work on them though.

The long answer

Well defined and well accepted standards could make it possible to have things like interoperability and reliability and tell you what you can expect for functionality. They can also (in...

I've mentioned Amazon EC2 a few times here. But did you know that you could build your own elastic cloud infrastructure instead of using Amazon's?

Eucalyptus is software that was...