Tag: Progress

Balancing relational data with an object-oriented approach to managing it

One of the major new areas in OpenEdge 10 is the language support for classes. ABL now lets you define source files as classes, as an alternative to procedures, to take advantage of many valuable object-oriented features established by languages like Java and C#, including inheritance and...

Eclipsecon 2008

Last month, I had the pleasure of attending Eclipsecon 2008, Eclipse conference, in Santa Clara, CA. The conference was well attended with 1404 attendees representing 37 countries.  There were 10 parallel tracks and with a wide range of sessions from “Getting started” to “How to make money with...

Of OpenEdge, Toasters and Vacuum Cleaners

Are toasters and vacuum cleaners ultimate examples of commodities? Of course!, right? Well, think again.

A few months back I read ‘The Myth of Commoditization’ by Michael Schrage, an article in the ‘MIT Sloan Management...

Exchange 2008

With Exchange being less than 10 weeks away, I thought now would be a great time to give you an update on our planning, and to share some of the excitement about things that you can expect to see.

As a participant...

Maybe Reuse Isn't Always Such a Good Thing

I was flying from Montreal to Boston yesterday and we had a flight delay.  Not that unusual, but I did what I always do when that happens - I went to the FAA's website to see what was happening.

I was expecting to see the FAA say it was a weather or volume problem.  But, what I saw...

dan foody January 25, 2008

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