Last week, the majority of commentary of Sybase was all about SAP’s push to expand into the burgeoning mobile market. The ASA product line has definitely made inroads which will give SAP an immediate leg up,, the real key to this new relationship is this: the business information market.
SAP’s purchase of Sybase was probably more [...]
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This week marks the release of two new product service packs for our ADO.NET and ODBC product lines. Service packs mostly consist of a roll-up of bug fixes to our products but occasionally include certifications for specific database and platform versions.
So here’s a list of what is included in each of these service packs:
Connect for [...]
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Performance is always at the top of the list of reasons why customers buy Progress DataDirect products. Even though all of our products are designed to deliver maximum performance out-of-the-box, there are cases where there may be a need to tune a product to get even better performance.
While many customers are aware that our drivers [...]
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Some recommended reading for those of you who are looking at what NHibernate 2.0 offers in comparison to Entity Framework 4.0. While it is a fairly subjective view point Ayende Rahien does a good job dissecting the differences with a view to considering the pros and cons. Check out the blog posting here.
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Annual prognostications are typically overly optimistic, so for 2010’s soothsaying I’ve opted for a more pragmatic approach.
Austerity drives innovations in doing more with less – The 2009 budgetary hangovers while I expect to less restrictive this year, will drive nearly all purchasing decisions this year. A need to demonstrate obvious and immediate on any return [...]
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VS
When talking about evaluating an effective software program, an efficient environment, or a powerful piece of hardware, how many times has someone said to me “performance isn’t important”? About the same number of times as I have won the lottery (hint: I am not writing this from a tropical beach). One of the biggest goals [...]
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Since the announcement of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 2 we have seen torrent of requests from people looking to use our Oracle EF provider with VS 2010. The good news is that we are planning to support it officially in our upcoming service pack, due early next year. The even [...]
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In this podcast Rob Steward shares why Progress Software is a great place to work, and he provides insights into corporate culture. This podcast lasts for 3:24.
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Alex James from Microsoft has an excellent series of Entity Framework tips, that offer generic best practices on how programming effectively with the Entity Framework. Although some of his tips focus on EF4, there’s lots useful material for those embarking on EF 1.0 projects. Enjoy!
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Early on in our EF development cycles, I gave our .NET QA team an unusual challenge:- Spin up our test suites in readiness for our upcoming ADO.NET Entity Framework support for Oracle, except without an pre-QA ADO.NET EF provider ready for Oracle. Our excellent QA got to work and built our the majority of our [...]
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