OMG, what is this flip the buffer thing. I am ported back in time. Yes, that is what is happening. I have to edit a program in D3 and I forgot about flipping the buffer to see the changed code. It cannot be 1984 again. I did not like it when I first experienced D3 but it was not called D3 back then. What was it called? Maybe it was called OA or R83. Why should I care why is this editor so archaic? This is just a dream. I'm waking up now...
U2logic has created a full screen editor using the open source program Eclipse IDE for our D3 programmers. You can experience continuous compile of your D3 code. You can have a local history of all your changes to each program. You can have highlight reserved words that can be any color that Eclipse supports. You can edit D3 programs from you Mac or Windows work stations. You can see compiler errors via the Marker window by line number. You can see compiler error via console window.
Within Eclipse there is support for source code control for D3 via mainstream technologies like GIT, SVN, Team Foundation, and others. If you have a particular source code technology you like, they will have built an Eclipse plugin to access source code server.
Over time has we get going we will add the ability to copy from D3 to U2 and from U2 to D3. This will make porting or moving data from system to system pretty easy. We have use our copy and paste technology to copy between Universe and UniData for years. Our copy and paste technology allows us to copy data from server to server faster than most other U2 products saving you time.
Many D3 customers have already ask us to port many of our other tools to work with D3. We are prioritize them now and will be adding them over the next many months. Thanks to all of our beta testers for their valuable input whether it be a bug or a suggestion.
Showing posts with label Rocket Software. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rocket Software. Show all posts
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Change before you have to
Sometimes in life we get to look back at what we have accomplished.
Sometimes in life we are up to our buttocks in alligators and our objective was to drain the swamp.
Sometimes in life we walk around and forget to smell roses as we are knee deep in UniBasic Code.
Sometimes in life we are doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Sometimes in life changes are inevitable.
Since 1993 the top person at Rocket Software U2 has been with Unidata, Ardent, Informix, IBM, and now Rocket Software. Starting out a technical support person and currently holding the title Business Area Executive whatever that means. As Jack Welch has said: "Change before you have to". Well unfortunately with the current leader at the helm of Rocket Software U2, that will never happen.
Change is hard.
Change can be debilitating.
Change can be invigorating.
Whether you start at the bottom or in this case at the top, change must happen. The Rocket Software U2 must look at themselves every so often and see where they are going which is more important than from where they have been. For too long we have watch the U2 market go no where. We hear speeches from the top how they are growing anywhere from 8 to 15%. If that was the case then by now the U2 division should be at 250 million dollar business. We know that is not the case. The top management at U2 is stale and no Power Point presentation will every change my mind.
We need somebody that can imbue the U2 division with energy, personality, and rigorous performance that this business demands. The stoic complacent nature of the top must go. In the process, this organization with its great talent will develop great products and show the world market how nimble and hungry Rocket Software U2 is for your business.
Let's get this ship righted.
Let's start growing at 15% or more in bad years.
Let's start growing at 50% or more in good years.
Let's have this Rocket U2 software company on pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Let's have this U2 brand is known in the boardrooms of the Fortune 5000 corporations
Sometimes in life we are up to our buttocks in alligators and our objective was to drain the swamp.
Sometimes in life we walk around and forget to smell roses as we are knee deep in UniBasic Code.
Sometimes in life we are doing the same thing and expect a different result.
Sometimes in life changes are inevitable.
Since 1993 the top person at Rocket Software U2 has been with Unidata, Ardent, Informix, IBM, and now Rocket Software. Starting out a technical support person and currently holding the title Business Area Executive whatever that means. As Jack Welch has said: "Change before you have to". Well unfortunately with the current leader at the helm of Rocket Software U2, that will never happen.
Change is hard.
Change can be debilitating.
Change can be invigorating.
Whether you start at the bottom or in this case at the top, change must happen. The Rocket Software U2 must look at themselves every so often and see where they are going which is more important than from where they have been. For too long we have watch the U2 market go no where. We hear speeches from the top how they are growing anywhere from 8 to 15%. If that was the case then by now the U2 division should be at 250 million dollar business. We know that is not the case. The top management at U2 is stale and no Power Point presentation will every change my mind.
We need somebody that can imbue the U2 division with energy, personality, and rigorous performance that this business demands. The stoic complacent nature of the top must go. In the process, this organization with its great talent will develop great products and show the world market how nimble and hungry Rocket Software U2 is for your business.
Let's get this ship righted.
Let's start growing at 15% or more in bad years.
Let's start growing at 50% or more in good years.
Let's have this Rocket U2 software company on pages of the Wall Street Journal.
Let's have this U2 brand is known in the boardrooms of the Fortune 5000 corporations
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Red Headed Step Child
U2 databases Universe and Unidata are like the red headed step child. U2 has had a lot of suitors from Informix to IBM and now to Rocket Software and still not much as changed. The growth rate is double digits, but the software is still not well know. There are approximately 35,000 customers with 2.7 active maintenance licenses around the world.
Rocket/U2 does not really have sales people that sell software because the have none to sell. All of the sales are driven by U2 VAR's that package the database in with their software. The time to change this model is now.
When Oracle started in 1977 selling its signature database and middleware it only took 9 years before it started developing business application software. In the intervening years it spent billions to purchase software companies like PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Hyperion solutions to name just a few of the 100 or so acquisitions.
So Rocket needs to loosen the purse strings and start acquisitions that help sell the databases licenses just like Oracle and Microsoft are doing. Then those sales people will not be writing sales orders from the VAR's, they will be out on the street, so to speak, making those sales. The growth rate could be 10 times better instead of a 120 million dollar business that should be a billion dollar business.
Think about would you rather buy your software from a VAR or the company that makes the database? Easy answer in Q4 of 2010 Oracle had 7 billion in licenses and 13.1 billion in software services.
Rocket/U2 does not really have sales people that sell software because the have none to sell. All of the sales are driven by U2 VAR's that package the database in with their software. The time to change this model is now.
When Oracle started in 1977 selling its signature database and middleware it only took 9 years before it started developing business application software. In the intervening years it spent billions to purchase software companies like PeopleSoft, Siebel Systems, and Hyperion solutions to name just a few of the 100 or so acquisitions.
So Rocket needs to loosen the purse strings and start acquisitions that help sell the databases licenses just like Oracle and Microsoft are doing. Then those sales people will not be writing sales orders from the VAR's, they will be out on the street, so to speak, making those sales. The growth rate could be 10 times better instead of a 120 million dollar business that should be a billion dollar business.
Think about would you rather buy your software from a VAR or the company that makes the database? Easy answer in Q4 of 2010 Oracle had 7 billion in licenses and 13.1 billion in software services.
Monday, November 30, 2009
PHP for U2 databases
After see a crude but amazingly effective demo of PHP for the Web, I was convinced we needed to have an easier way to access U2 from the environment. Well, after searching for many hours on the web I found PHP Java-Bridge.
This open source software allows you to access any Java code without a lot of hassle. Within a few hours U2logic's Java programmer had a fully working interface. Installation is a bit more complicated because of our use of Apache's Tomcat but that is really nothing in the big scheme of things.
Our U2WebLink(tm) product has another way of accessing the U2 databases using PHP instead of HTML/JavaScript. This means that Python can use this system as well. More back for the buck, you can not really beat that.
I hope those of you reading this blog will try it out and give us some feedback.
This open source software allows you to access any Java code without a lot of hassle. Within a few hours U2logic's Java programmer had a fully working interface. Installation is a bit more complicated because of our use of Apache's Tomcat but that is really nothing in the big scheme of things.
Our U2WebLink(tm) product has another way of accessing the U2 databases using PHP instead of HTML/JavaScript. This means that Python can use this system as well. More back for the buck, you can not really beat that.
I hope those of you reading this blog will try it out and give us some feedback.
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