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Mapping Customer Data Using Maps to Visualise How Well Your Business Is Working Grey Matter Issue 59 | Spring 2013 Building on 29 years of software know how Cross-platform development Tools and technologies for targeting multiple client platforms Mapping Customer Data Using maps to visualise how well your business is working Windows Server 2012 The benefits of upgrading See page 10 WIN! for details Welcome Contents 4 Software News Adobe, Embarcadero, Editorial Over the past decade or so, those involved in the distribution Red Hat and more. Editor: .....................................................................Matt Nicholson of intellectual property (IP) have had their worlds turned Technical Editors: .. Sean Wilson, Paul Edwards 6 News in brief inside out by the Internet. First it was the music business getting to News Editor: ...................................................... Paul Stephens and competition winners. Publisher: ..................................................................Andrew King grips with the illegal download of music through services such as 9 Inside Data Contributors: ........Tim Anderson, Simon Bisson, Napster. More recently the film industry has had to watch DVD sales Mary Branscombe, Kay Ewbank, Jon How Oracle and Microsoft plummet as online streaming sites such as Netflix steal business away Honeyball, Graham Keitch, Paul Stephens support geographic data. Design and layout: ..................................... Jason Stanley from high-street shops. Meanwhile there’s panic in the bookshops as Illustration: ............................................................Sholto Walker they attempt to compete with Amazon and the downloadable eBook. 10 Competition Web Design: ........................................................Jason Stanley Win an iPad Mini! About the only IP industry not affected is that of invention. As far as I Advertising & Circulation know, patents continue to be licensed and sold in much the same was 12 Mapping customer data Marketing: ...................... Anna Roach, Emma Cottle, as they’ve always been. Using maps to visualise Ash Khagram how well your business is The reason for this revolution lies in the fact that the Internet has Tel: 01364 654100 working. all but eliminated the cost of distribution. Prior to the Internet, Email: [email protected] distributing IP such as music, film or books cost serious money. Vinyl HardCopy is edited for Grey Matter four records, CDs and DVDs had to be manufactured; paperbacks and times a year by Matt Publishing of Bristol. It hardbacks had to be printed and transported. But underneath it all is printed by Pepper Communications Ltd. of Plymouth and requested by 9,000 readers. was just raw data, and with the Internet, the incremental cost of distributing data is virtually nothing. Copyright © 2013 Grey Matter Ltd. All rights Of course one of the first industries to get to grips with the reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without prior Internet was the software industry. Even before the Internet, consent of the copyright holder. distribution costs were fairly low, and it quickly became obvious that All trademarks acknowledged. the value lay in the intellectual property - in other words the code 16 Windows Server 2012 HardCopy is a trademark and Grey Matter a Why you need to upgrade. registered trademark owned by Grey Matter itself - rather than in the medium by which it was distributed, which is Limited. While all reasonable attempts are why you buy a licence to use software, rather than the software itself. 20 Cross-platform made to ensure accuracy, Grey Matter and This is of course also true of films and music and books, but here it is development Matt Publishing disclaim any liability Tools and technologies. whatsoever for any use of information readily accepted that customers can sell the DVDs and CDs and herein. Prices exclude VAT unless specified. paperbacks they have bought to their friends, because this is a clear 23 Working with HTML5 transfer of use from one person to another. What it can do for your Cover Image illustration: Jason Stanley Which makes the recent case of Usedsoft vs. Oracle particularly applications. interesting. Like most software companies, what Oracle sells is a 26 Who are you? Advertisers Index perpetual licence to use its software, rather than the software itself. Techniques for combating German company Usedsoft, on the other hand, are in the business of identity theft. 2 Flexera buying and selling unused software licences. Despite vigorous 30 Straight talking 7 Quest Software (Dell) argument from Oracle, the European Court of Justice has ruled that Tim Anderson on 8 Oracle anyone in possession of a perpetual licence to use a computer Microsoft Office 2013. 11 Symantec program has the right to sell the licence on, even if they had originally 15 Bing Maps 32 And Another Thing downloaded the software from the author’s Web site. The ruling Jon Honeyball reports 18 DataCore effectively puts software on the same footing as paperbacks and from CES, Las Vegas. 19 Windows Server 2012 DVDs, so going against the generally accepted view that a perpetual 22 Intel 34 Short Cuts licence cannot be transferred. Views from the edge. 25 Infragistics For the industry, volume licences which are renewed every year 29 Aspose or so provide a measure of defence against the decision. However 31 JetBrains software distribution is already learning lessons from elsewhere. 33 MAPCITE Services such as Adobe Creative Cloud or Microsoft Office 365, where Register Now! 35 Visual Studio 2012 software is sold on a monthly or annual subscription service, bear HardCopy magazine is published four times 36 Adobe comparison with Netflix, which serves much the same purpose. a year. 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The company has also text and objects, and colour swatch import Cloud Connection app, available to all Cloud released a new Team version of the service, from HTML, CSS and SVG files. Named type subscribers, provides a Dropbox-like interface along with a new file sync utility and styles plus 3D shadow and illumination between local and cloud storage. Creative in-application training resources. Support for improvements are included, and maximum Cloud Training provides tutorials and trial MacBook Pro Retina displays has been added to JPEG size is more than doubled to 65K by 65K courses from partners including video2brain Photoshop and Illustrator in both Cloud and pixels. Adobe’s Muse no-coding Web site and Attain. boxed versions. designer, meanwhile, gains the ability to Adobe Creative Cloud, launched last April, Photoshop enhancements include Smart define unique layouts for desktop, iPhone, offers all the Creative Suite 6 applications, Object (non-destructive editing) support for the iPad and other mobile devices. Adobe has including Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Blur Gallery and Liquify tools; conditional made no announcements on when or if the Illustrator, as a monthly subscription service. In actions based on user-defined rules; and new features will find their way to non-Cloud December the company announced that the refinements to the Crop and Pen tools. Also CS6 customers. service had reached one million members, of provided are quick CSS code generation from Creative Cloud for teams is a new which 326,000 are paying subscribers. IntelliJ 12 embraces the Darker side JetBrains • www.greymatter.com/JetBrains-s-r-o/ It’s just a year since Prague-based tools including XML configurations and a drag and range of component types and UI layouts, vendor JetBrains released version 11 of drop dependency diagram. Play 2.0 multi-component properties editor and its multi-platform IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE, applications can be created using the Java or multiple device profiles. Databases can now be complete with a “rethought and reworked” user Scala languages, with advanced code created directly from the IDE, while other interface. Now it’s rethought and reworked it assistance and templates support. improvements include better J2EE server again for version 12, coming up with a For those who like to develop for Android management tools and Cucumber for JVM redesigned UI complete with ‘Darcula’ theme, in its native Java, IntelliJ IDEA now offers a support. 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