WaveMaker announced a partnership last week with Enterprise DB, specifically their blades program. Enterprise DB (based on Postgres) is being bundled with the next release of WaveMaker to beef up the database part of our Ajax development platform.
Now Lewis Cunningham, a Senior Solutions Architect for Enterprise DB, has posted a great WaveMaker product review. He compares WaveMaker to Oracle Forms and Oracle ApEx, with the difference that WaveMaker works with standard Java and the Oracle products only More»

Labels: ajax, EnterpriseDB, oracle forms, Postgres, wavemaker

Web 2.0 apps look all shiny and bright, but we all know what horrors lurk within the typical enterprise IT shop. Web 2.0 will not be able to transform the enterprise until it can deal with real world integration nightmares like CICS systems, flat files accessed through obscure SNA protocols and AS/400s programmed in RPG.
Who is going to tame all this real world IT stuff and bring it into the bright shiny Web 2.0 world? SnapLogic and WaveMaker, that’s who!
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Labels: Snaplogic, wavemaker, web 2.0

The next Visual Ajax User Group webinar and meeting will be next Thursday, April 17 at 12 PST. The speakers will be Scott Miles and Steve Orvell. Scott is the module owner for the Dojo Grid and Steve is a core contributor for the Dojo Grid. They will be talking about “Ajax Grids - Taming and Tooling The Widget Beast.”
To attend the webinar, send an email to rsvp@visualajax.org
Our last meeting was a lively discussion led by Alex Russell More»

Labels: Dojo, Visual Ajax, wavemaker

If you are planning on attending the MySQL conference in Santa Clara next week, you should definitely check out the BoF session Tuesday night 4/15 @ 8:30 Ballroom E, titled “Be a Web 2.0 Rock Star”
Anand Pandey of MySQL will be conducting a hands-on training session on the open source WaveMaker visual Ajax studio.
For added excitement, there will also be a speed Web 2.0 code-a-thon with judging by More»

Labels: ajax, mysql, Visual Ajax, wavemaker

I am off to the Open Source Think Tank conference in Napa this week (along with Matt Asay, Marten Mickos and Gianugo Rabellino) with one burning question on my mind: how do you leverage open source “goodness” into vibrant community “greatness.”
To torture a metaphor, making a product open source in an emerging market is like making water free in a land where the horses don’t know they’re thirsty. Going open source is not enough, the challenge is to More»

Labels: PowerBuilder, Ruby on Rails, Spring, wavemaker

Rod Johnson of SpringSource spoke on my panel last week at the WebGuild conference. One topic we discussed was the need for the Java community to wake up to the reality that an increasing number of companies are moving from Java to .NET.
For ten years, the ponderous J2EE standard has made the lives of Java programmers everywhere miserable. While various Java standards committees considered gravely what to do next, corporations have been steadily moving to . More»

Labels: Ruby on Rails, Spring, wavemaker

The open source feeding frenzy continues. Last year it was Redhat acquiring JBoss. This year it’s Sun acquiring MySQL. This is a strong validation for the open source business model, and gives Sun a new software platform for leadership in the enterprise.
MySQL has been strong in the web database market and is just now poking its nose into the enterprise. To do this, they have teamed up with WaveMaker for companies looking to replace their client/server tools like Oracle More»

Labels: keeneview, lotus notes, mysql, oracle forms, sun microsystems, wavemaker