June 30, 2011 – Hanover Park, IL – Developer tools provider RemObjects Software is helping software developers build better applications more easily with the employment of JavaScript in the Business Rules Scripting feature for Data Abstract. Data Abstract is the premier framework for building cross-platform multi-tier database solutions, and the implementation of JavaScript logic in its Business Rules Scripting improves flexibility and scalability.



The use of JavaScript improves data validation on both the client and the server side. On the client side the update speeds up input validation for fast user feedback and on the server side it provides security to protect data. The Business Rules Scripting feature enables users to quickly update business logic, eliminating the need to recompile or redeploy clients or servers. Business Rules Scripting allows scripts to work with and validate data while the Data Abstract infrastructure is processing it. A series of event handlers enable users to hook into the data access and data modification processes. The JavaScript class library allows users to work with requests and changes. On the server-side this supports querying and modifying secondary data in addition to the data requested or updated.

June 30, 2011 – Philadelphia, PA – In April, Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company announced the launch of OpenDataPhilly.org (http://opendataphilly.org/), a Philadelphia-centric catalog of online data, applications and APIs. Today, Azavea announces that the code of the OpenDataPhilly.org project is now available as open source software under the name Open Data Catalog, and is freely available for anyone to use at: https://github.com/azavea/Open-Data-Catalog

While a multitude of government agencies, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions throughout the world have assembled data pertaining to their activities and the communities they serve, these datasets exist in disparate formats and locations. For people interested in using this data, the search can be like finding a needle in a haystack. OpenDataPhilly.org, a collaborative effort between Technically Philly, WHYY Radio, the City of Philadelphia’s Open Access Philly task force, and Azavea was launched to connect people with data pertaining to the Philadelphia region. The initial version of the database encompasses a catalog of over 100 datasets providing information about zoning, mortgages and deeds, campaign finance records, polling places, locations of schools and libraries, bicycle networks, crime, local and regional train routes, and many other metrics about the Philadelphia region.

June 30, 2011 – San Jose, CA – Continuent, Inc., a leading provider of replication and clustering solutions for open source databases, today announced the availability of the Tungsten Enterprise Summer ’11 Edition. Tungsten Enterprise is a complete replication and data management solution for MySQL™ and PostgreSQL. The latest Tungsten Enterprise edition is designed to simplify the management of, and to ensure the availability and scalability of mission critical applications and services.

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This new edition includes enhancements to Tungsten’s error detection, cluster throughput and replication, including:

June 29, 2011 – Summer days, heat waves and sunrays means one thing. It’s time to step out and soak up some long-awaited summer fun. Hoards of people grab their smartphones, iPhones, iPods, maybe a GPS or other small electronic devices as they head out into the sun. But after a day of heavy use, those devices will experience battery drain. Keystone’s portable solar battery charger ECO Solar & USB Power PAK comes to the rescue.



Keystone ECO™ Solar/USB Power PAK is a portable solar battery charger that lets users harness the sun to save up back up power. The ultra light-weight Power PAK is equipped with a high efficiency mono-crystalline solar panel that collects energy in direct sun and partial sun. Aside from charging via the solar panel, its built-in 1500 mAh Lithium-Polymer battery can be recharged simply by extending the built-in USB key and connecting it to the computer.

June 28, 2011 – Eden Prairie, MN – Skybot Software, a Help/Systems company, announces publication of its Service Corporation International (SCI) Success Story. SCI, a longtime Help/Systems customer, is a world leader in funeral services, with more than 20,000 dedicated employees, exclusive products and customer benefits, and best-in-class policies and professional standards.



SCI runs their core business from a data center with jobs and processes running 24/7. In the IBM i world, they had enjoyed years of automation courtesy of Robot/SCHEDULE, the automated batch management and job scheduling software from Help/Systems.

June 28, 2011 – Mountain View, CA – Appcelerator®, the leading mobile cloud platform for rapidly developing native mobile, desktop, and tablet applications using web technologies, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner Inc., a premier research and advisory firm, in the Visionary Quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Consumer Application Platforms” report, published June 22, 2011 by William Clark and Michael J. King.



The report analyzed 20 software development platforms that deliver consumer-facing applications on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Given the business opportunity represented by over 5 billion mobile phones in use worldwide in 2010 (growing to over 6.7 billion connections by 2015), Gartner estimates “the demand by enterprises for mobile web adaptation platforms will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 40% through 2014.” Gartner identifies cross-compilation platforms that generate native or rich application code as a key approach for enterprises delivering mobile B2C applications and content.

June 28, 2011 – Austin, Texas – GoldenOrb, an open source project modeled after Google’s Pregel architecture that executes massive graph processing in the cloud, today launched into general availability. GoldenOrb enables dynamically scalable graph processing, built upon best-of-breed software from the Apache Hadoop project.



The project is stewarded by Ravel, an Austin-based big data analytics software company.

June 21, 2011 – Saratoga, CA – Rollbase, Inc., an innovator in cloud application and platform as a service (PaaS) technology allowing the rapid design, development and deployment of on-demand business applications, today announced the launch of its new automated Force.com migration tool. The innovative solution allows businesses to migrate any application from Salesforce.com, such as Salesforce CRM, as well as custom applications built on the Force.com platform to the Rollbase platform. Rollbase’s new capability is now available to all users of the Rollbase.com Hosted Cloud and is included in the latest version of the Rollbase Private Cloud, currently available for download and installation. This new capability complements the company’s existing migration tools that enable users of Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel to easily migrate databases and spreadsheets to a modern application platform as a service running on any in-house or third-party servers, or at Rollbase.com.



“With the Force.com migration tool we are providing organizations with a way to easily move their cloud applications to a more affordable platform that runs on their own servers in-house (i.e. Rollbase Private Cloud), or on the Rollbase.com Hosted Cloud,” said Matt Robinson, co-founder and CEO of Rollbase. “Because Salesforce does not license their technology for in-house installation and deployment, it is not possible for Salesforce customers to maintain complete control over their CRM and custom Force.com applications. They have no direct control over the software, hardware, or security infrastructure, or how and where their data is stored. While Rollbase offers a very similar hosted option, we are also working with an increasing number of organizations that have strict policies requiring software and data to be operated and housed on-site. These organizations will not use Salesforce CRM and Force.com, but they can use Rollbase Private Cloud as an alternative. And with our new migration tool it can take less than 5 minutes for any existing Salesforce or Force.com user to make the switch.”