Newsletter :: January 2007
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SEASON GREETINGS! db4objects wishes you a very happy holiday season. We greatly value your contributions over the last year and are looking forward to a very exciting 2007 year of joint successes!
K U D O O F T H E M O N T H
"Object databases... I had no idea they were so useful and simple to use. Just imagine, db4o is just one dll! Read it again. It's just one simple dll; no setup or configuration or management or anything. Portable efficient storage of data. That's how the whole of IT should be."
--Orbifold, 12/1/2006
A R T I C L E S
-- db4o VERSION 6.0 RELEASED AS PRODUCTION READY --
db4o Version 6.0 is now available as a production-ready version for download from the db4o Website. We recommend immediately upgrading to this version, dubbed 6.0.100, for your ongoing development work.
Thanks to the feedback of our community members who have downloaded 12,400 copies of the development (beta) version over a period of only 4 weeks, many bugs were fixed along with the introduction of an impressive set of new features:
Read more about the improvements of version 6.0 in this release document.
Hints for upgrading from version 5.x can be found here.
db4o V6.0 at the 2007 Roadshow
At the db4o Roadshow last month (with stops in San Francisco, Boston, Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Munich, Paris, Berlin, and London), db4o users were able to talk exclusively with db4objects' chief software architect Carl Rosenberger about the benefits of version 6.0 and to share their overwhelmingly positive feedback with members of the db4o team.
You can download the roadshow slides from the db4o Download Center and see pictures on the photos4objects photo blog.
-- dOCL, THE NEW db4o OPEN SOURCE COMPATIBILITY LICENSE --
db4o has issued a third licensing option for free/open source projects that want to embed db4o but do not want to (or are not able to) license their derivative work under the GPL in its entirety. This initiative aims to proliferate db4o into many more open source projects by providing compatibility for projects licensed under Apache, LGPL, BSD, EPL, and others, as required by our users.
In order to receive the benefits from this licensing option, you simply need to register your open source project in the Projects section by mailing to community@db4o.com and thus accepting the licensing terms of the new "dOCL" agreement.
-- CONGRATULATION TO ADDITIONAL dVPs 2007 --
db4objects wishes to congratulate 20 additional candidates who received the db4o Most Valued Professional (dVP) 2007 award in recognition for their contributions to the db4o Community. The nominees in this second and final round for the 2007 award are listed on the db4o website, flagged with "(2)", and will receive a certificate, db4o accessories perks, and other special privileges.
In addition, 5 of the new dVPs have been invited to attend the db4o Developer Conference, a week-long meeting of the core developer team in Hong Kong, from January 8-12, 2007. The dVPs will represent the user community at large and influence the discussions of the core development team.
The total number of recognized dVPs is now at 53, representing 23 different countries. db4o Most Valued Professionals are recognized individuals with expertise in the db4o product who actively participate in our community to share their knowledge and expertise with other db4o users.
-- NEW CUSTOMER: SYFT TECHNOLOGIES --
Syft Technologies, an innovative company in New Zealand, develops real-time high-throughput high-sensitivity VOC analysis systems based on Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) with db4o.
"One of the greatest advantages of db4o is that it works with plain old Java objects (POJOs)," says Gordon Milne, Software Development Manager. "I can avoid the large infrastructure costs of relational databases such as schema design. And db4o offers not only the advantage of a small system memory footprint, but also the advantage of a small 'developer memory' footprint. The API is elegantly simple with a very short learning curve."
-- db4objects PARTNERS WITH PERSISTENT SYSTEMS --
db4objects has entered into a strategic alliance with Persistent Systems, a leader in outsourced software product development, to help customers efficiently implement db4o's native object-oriented technology in their products, especially within tight time and budget constraints. Persistent, founded in 1990, specializes in data persistence, product development and support. Headquartered in Pune, India, with a presence in the USA, UK, and Japan, Persistent currently has a workforce of 2,700 software experts.
"We are very excited to work with db4objects on the forefront of modern object-oriented persistence technology," says Dr. Anand Deshpande, founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent. "db4o helps developers to be more productive and write more feature rich applications with embedded persistence. Persistent Systems can thus help its customers with a significant Time-to-Market advantage while lowering development costs."
If you're interested to learn how this alliance can help you to slash software development cost or to tackle major refactoring projects without constraining your regular output stream, please contact sales@db4o.com.
L O O K I N G I N T O T H E M I R R O R
Selected press coverage about db4o since the last newsletter:
"[Interview] Christof Wittig CEO de db4o"
Developpeur.org, November 30, 2006, by Patrice Lamarche
"Free and open source software conference begins"
The Hindu, November 25, 2006
"Making an open source object database fly"
IT Manager's Journal, November 24, 2006, by Tina Gasperson
"Open Source Event Kicks Off"
Red Herring, November 24, 2006, by Kalpana Shah
"db4o open source object database v 6.0 released"
TheServerSide.com, November 22, 2006, by Carl Rosenberger
"db4o object-oriented database (2)"
IBM DeveloperWorks China, November 20, 2006, by Rosen Jiang, Andrew Zhang, Chris Li Weidong (In Chinese)
"New Version of db4o Database for Embedded Systems Released" (PDF)
Nikkei BP, November 16, 2006, by Horikiri (In Japanese)
"Dual-licensed object database posts major speed gains"
LinuxDevices.com, November 15, 2006
"Objects and Databases: State of the Union 2006"
Dr. Dobbs Portal, November 15, 2006
"Community and Ricoh put db4o into the Mainstream"
LinuxToday Japan, November 14, 2006, by Naoko Yamakata (In Japanese)
"Object database promises performance leap"
EE Times, November 14, 2006, by Richard Goering
"Embedded object database is leaner, meaner and determinstic"
Embedded.com, November 13, 2006, by Bernhard Cole
"The Proper Care and Feeding of Object Databases In Embedded Systems"
Dr. Dobbs Portal, November 13, 2006, by Rick Grehan
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