28 August, 2009
[From Sybase]
Sybase, Inc. today announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s development tool. This latest release of PowerBuilder empowers developers with a path to the Microsoft .NET Framework, the Microsoft Windows component that supports building and running the next generation of applications.
The article continues at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1065278
28 August, 2009
[From Heise Online]
The PostgreSQL developers have released a first alpha of version 8.5 of their open source database system. The developer release contains 36 patches. With its new approach of releasing alpha versions, the PostgreSQL project intends to give advanced users early access so they can test and report problems with new features and new code as early as possible.
The alpha versions are not stable and unsuitable for production use. They are, therefore, only available in source code form. Some binary versions may be released at a later date. Three or four further alpha versions are scheduled for release within a couple of months.
The article continues at http://www.h-online.com/open/PostgreSQL-8-5-alpha-version-released--/news/114074
28 August, 2009
[From Help Net Security]
Sentrigo announced Hedgehog 3.0, which now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008, as well as SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 running on earlier Windows platforms. Additionally, the virtual patching solution Hedgehog vPatch now includes dozens of additional protections specific to SQL Server.
The article continues at http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=7927
27 August, 2009
Embarcadero Technologies released a new suite of tools aimed at developers looking to tune Java and SQL code in data driven applications.
The revamped tools are based on the CodeGear technology San Francisco-based Embarcadero acquired last year from Borland Software and are focused at the design, building and running of database applications. The tools address the various stages of the database development and performance management lifecycles.
26 August, 2009
New Joyent MySQL Solution is 3X Faster than Amazon EC2
SAUSALITO, CA, August 11, 2009 -- Joyent, the leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems' MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun’s database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL.
26 August, 2009
Yii is a high-performance framework. The graph below shows how efficient Yii is when compared with other popular PHP frameworks. In the graph, RPS stands for "request per second" which describes how many requests an application written in a framework can process per second. The higher the number, the more efficient a framework is. As we can see that Yii outperforms all other frameworks in this comparison. The performance advantage of Yii is especially significant when the widely used APC extension is enabled.
