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$7.00 U.S. InsIde: REPORT MINING INTERNATIONAL Plus! Becoming a ® Software Vendor SSpecpecTHE MULTIVALUE TEttCHNOLOGYrr umMumAGAZINE I NOV/DEC 2009 – Wrap-up MultiValue Everywhere Using PHP to Connect U2 to the Web intl-spectrum.com Special Issue MultiValue Industry "End of Year" Recap! EmbedCache28Spectrum:Layout 1 12/15/08 5:35 PM Page 1 Embed the fastest database. For software developers seeking competitive advantages, InterSystems Caché® makes applications more valuable by increasing their speed and scalability, while decreasing hard- ware and administration requirements. This is the fastest database engine you can put in your applications, and it's the only database that gives you the combined benefits of object and relational technologies. Thanks to its innovative architecture, Caché spares Java and .NET programmers a lot of tedious work by eliminating the need for object- relational mapping. Caché is available for Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and OpenVMS – and it supports MultiValue development. Caché is deployed on more than 100,000 systems worldwide, ranging from two to over 50,000 users. Embed our innovations, enrich your applications. Make Applications More Valuable Download a free, fully functional, no-time-limit copy of Caché, or request it on DVD, at InterSystems.com/Cache28WW © 2008 InterSystems Corporation. All rights reserved. InterSystems Caché is a registered trademark of InterSystems Corporation. 12-08 EmbedCache28Spec INTERNATIONAL ® SSpecpecTHE MULTIVALUE tt TErrCHNOLOGYumum MAGAZINE MultiValue Everywhere – 6 Using PHP to Connect U2 FEATURES I NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 to the Web Anything Everywhere! What does “Everywhere” mean? It can mean on desktops, on all servers in an End of Year Recap 2009 has been a challenging year with most companies and organizations striving to do more with less. Even given enterprise, or it can mean accessible 8 the difficult environment, many companies have been creating a from everwhere, like from the Web. number of successes. We asked some of our MultiValue partners to tell There are numerous ways to make us about them. MultiValue data accessible from the Web. This article explores one possibility. Business Tech: Becoming a Software Vendor — Part 6 Want to become a Software Vendor? Have the Killer App? Having BY KEVIN KING 12 discussed packaging, presentation, support requirements, distribution channels, and the like, this final article brings it back to several of the key questions. It this right for you? Do you have what it takes to risk failure, and make it a success? BY CHARLES BAROUCH SMS : An Example of Push Technology E-mail, Twitter, RSS. 14 There are many ways to get the message to your customers and coworkers. One of the methods that will allow you reach over two billions users is to use SMS (Short Message Service) to send text DEPARTMENTS messages to mobile phones. BY BOB CARTEN, REVELATION SOFTWARE Report Mining Your user-base wants some information. You have From the Inside page 4 28 it available. After all, there are a couple of reports that produce that Newsmakers page 22 data. But no. They want it in a different format, or downloadable as a spreadsheet. So we re-write the Query report as a MultiValue Basic New Products page 24 export program, right? Not so fast! There may be other options. BY Tech Tip page 32 BRIAN LEACH Clif Notes page 47 Purchase of IBM U2 by Rocket Software October 1st, Rocket 30 Software purchased the U2 assets (UniVerse and UniData) from IBM. We talked with the U2 team about the change, what it meant, and what International Spectrum and MultiValue U2 customers could expect. The answers to those and other questions are registered trademarks of International are summarized in this FAQ. BY NATHAN RECTOR Spectrum, Inc. All other registered trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders. INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 u 3 INTERNATIONAL From the Inside B Y N A T H A N R E C T O R SpectNrOVEMumBER/DECEMBER 2009 http://blog.intl-spectrum.com NATHAN RECTOR President Happy holidays to all! MultiValue vendors, including seeing CLIFTON OLIVER It’s the end of the year, time to relax new products that would benefit your Managing Editor company’s business systems. and enjoy family and gift giving, and SHANNON STOLTZ time to start planning for 2010. To find out more on the 2010 Confer- Content Editor ence go to the following URL: Now that 2010 is just around the TRACEY RECTOR corner, it’s time for me to start talking www.intl-spectrum.com/conference/ Layout about what is coming up: Denver2010/ 1. The International Spectrum Con- Look for the Conference brochure ference and Exhibition 2010 is in that will be landing on your desks Denver on April 12 – 15. That is soon that will contain a lot of helpful Learn more about the MultiValue Symbol and see less than five months away. information as well. what MulitValue Technologies and MultiValue Communities exist to help you support and manage 2. Social Media enhancements using Social Media your business and systems. To find out more visit Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Social media has become an accepted http://www.intl-spectrum.com LinkedIn. means of communicating resources 3. Desktop and home page widgets MISSION STATEMENT International Spectrum and other information. International magazine’s editorial mission is to be the premier independent to provide software and database Spectrum enhanced its services to source of useful information for users, developers, and resellers tips, resources, and news directly of MultiValue database management systems, open systems include social media outlets for news, business database solutions, and related hardware, software, to you. tech resources, and general informa- and peripherals. Published bimonthly, International Spectrum provides comprehensive coverage of the products, companies, 2010 International Spectrum tion. and trends that shape the MultiValue marketplace as well as the computer industry at large — helping its readers get the most Have you taken a look at the confer- By the beginning of the year, we will out of their business computer systems. ence details yet? If not, please do. increase our use of Twitter to include You’ll find many informative sessions more information about the Multi- that you shouldn’t miss. You will also Value industry and to provide other find some documents and materials resources (both tech and IT). We will on the conference web site to help also have Facebook pages to help dis- MV .ENTERPRISE Mentor you justify your attendance at the tribute product specific information. Pro conference to management. We have been fairly active on Linke- MO/E Native PICK We all know how hard it is to explain dIn, and we will continue to use it to to management why it is important help with professional networking. PC Verse PICK OA to go to any conference. Look through Desktop/Home Page widgets tm Power the materials in the “Why Attend?” 95 More and more people are looking to section, see sample trip reports, the REALITY AP/PRO Letter to the Manager, and other create mashups using Yahoo, Google, R91 information to help out. and Windows Live to combine all MULTI Verse their information into one place. With There is also a webinar on January the releases of the new desktop OSs, RPL 15, 2010 providing a preview of the desktop widgets are providing the MV •BASE conference and providing tools you same abilities. can use to produce an ROI for attend- International Spectrum is published six (6) times per year at International Spectrum has created the subscription price of $40.00 U.S. in the U.S.A.; $45.00 U.S. ing. Conference information will be in Canada and Mexico; $50.00 U.S. for other countries. 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PRINTED IN USA ing management into paying for the NEWS RELEASES/UNSOLICITED ARTICLES attendance, don’t forget that the International Spectrum is eager to print your submissions of up-to- the-minute news and feature stories complementary to the exhibition floor is FREE to all attend- MultiValue marketplace. Black and white or color photographs ees and walk-ins. This gives you a and diagrams are welcome. Although there is no guarantee a -NATHAN RECTOR submitted article will be published, every article will be con- chance to see all the tools, products, sidered. Please send your press releases, articles, and queries President, International Spectrum to: [email protected]. International Spectrum retains all and enhancement from your favorite reprint rights. [email protected] International Spectrum is a registered trademark and MultiValue is a trademark of International Spectrum, Inc. All other registered 4 u INTERNATIONAL SPECTRUM NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009 trademarks and trademarks are the property of the respective trademark holders. MultiValue Everywhere Using PHP to Connect U2 to the Web BY KEVIN KING t would appear that this little thing we call the Internet is probably going to be around for a while. IWouldn’t it be cool if we could leverage all that technology to give people all over the world access to our MultiValue information? Think about it — MultiValue everywhere! It makes me all warm and tingly just thinking about it.