[ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

> Come to the GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions in room 201B from  
> 5:30 until 7:00 on Monday Apr 30th.
>
> You can meet the GemStone/S team, learn what's new in GS/S-64 2.2,  
> discuss the GemStone port of Seaside and Monticello, and witness  
> the unveiling of an edition of GemStone/S that's free -- even for  
> commercial use. (If you can't attend, you can watch for the  
> announcement in your inbox.)
>
>
> If you're in the Toronto area, you're welcome to drop in even if  
> you're not attending the conference.
>
>
> -Martin
>

>
> On 28 avr. 07, at 02:01, Martin McClure wrote:
>
>> Come to the GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions in room 201B from 5:30
>> until 7:00 on Monday Apr 30th.
>>
>> You can meet the GemStone/S team, learn what's new in GS/S-64 2.2,
>> discuss the GemStone port of Seaside and Monticello, and witness the
>> unveiling of an edition of GemStone/S that's free -- even for
>> commercial use. (If you can't attend, you can watch for the
>> announcement in your inbox.)
>>
>>
>> If you're in the Toronto area, you're welcome to drop in even if
>> you're not attending the conference.
>>
>>
>> -Martin
>>

> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>> Martin
>> once the free version will be officially announced, could you give  
>> us more information
>> about the exact conditions?
>
> Hi Stef,
>
> Sorry for the delay; I caught a cold in Toronto and am still  
> catching up.
>
> Below is the (slightly updated) text of the announcement that we  
> handed out in Toronto. Discussion can be found on the GemStone  
> customer forum (see http://support.gemstone.com for links to the  
> forum). This is all very new. We're in the process of setting up a  
> website for the new stuff -- it should be up within a few days,  
> most likely at http://glass.gemstone.com.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Martin
>
>
> Seaside under GLASS
>
> Introducing a powerful new way to deploy desktop-like web  
> applications -- GLASS: GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, Smalltalk.
>
> You may already be familiar with the advantages Seaside has over  
> Ruby on
> Rails. But you may be concerned that Seaside lacks native  
> persistence or won’t scale.
>
> By running your Seaside application in GemStone, you’ll gain a  
> Smalltalk based Application Server and OODB that:
>
> * Provides fully transparent persistence that doesn’t require
>   Object-Relational Mapping
> * Scales to over a hundred billion objects and thousands of
>   simultaneous connections
> * Supports fully ACID transactions to handle concurrency conflicts
> * Handles up to 150 HTTP requests per second
> * Directly loads Monticello packages into a GemStone VM
>
> GemStone/S is proven technology currently deployed in numerous  
> global 2000 companies in the financial, container shipping,  
> manufacturing, and utilities sectors.
>
> Here is a comparison of several 64-bit editions of GemStone/S that  
> will be available in Q3 of 2007:
>
>               GemStone/S
>               Web Edition       GemStone/S LE        GemStone/S
> Price         Free!             $7000/year           Call
>
> Number of
> objects       64 million        256 million          138 billion
>
> CPUs Used     1                 2                    unlimited
>
> Maximum RAM
> (Shared Page
>  Cache Size)  1 GB              2 GB                 32768 GB
>
> Maximum disk
> (Repository
>  Size)        4 GB              64 GB                8192 Terabytes
>
> Max Server
> Processes
> (Concurrent
>  Sessions)    2                 10                   10,000
>
> Clustered
> servers
> (Remote Gems) no                no                   yes
>
> Linux         yes               yes                  yes
>
> Solaris,
> AIX, HP-UX    no                no                   yes
>
> VisualWorks
> Clients       no                yes                  yes
>
> VA Smalltalk
> Clients       no                yes                  yes
>
> Web Clients   yes               yes                  yes
>
> Squeak Tools  yes               yes                  yes
>
> Support       Community         20 hours/year        Std 9x5 or 24x7
>
>
> Other configurations between GemStone/S LE and the full version of
> GemStone/S are available through subscription or perpetual  
> licenses. Contact [hidden email] for inquiries.
>