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[ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

Martin McClure
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

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Re: [ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

stéphane ducasse-2
Martin

once the free version will be officially announced, could you give us  
more information
about the exact conditions?

Stef

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
>

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Re: [ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

Martin McClure
stéphane ducasse wrote:
> Martin
>
> once the free version will be officially announced, could you give us
> more information
> about the exact conditions?

Hi Stef,

Absolutely. We may be able to get that out to the list before the
conference is over. If we're too mobbed there, we'll get it out very
shortly thereafter.

We do want everyone to know this information. :-)

-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
>>

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Re: [ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

Martin McClure
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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.

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Re: [ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

Joseph Bacanskas-4
Hi Martin:

As a GemStone DBA by day, and a hacker by night, i must say, this  
really rocks!!

In an presient email many years ago (1999?), Kent Beck said (with  
love, I believe) that Smalltalk was a niche product.  He said it  
should find its niche so that it could thrive.  At long last, I  
believe GemStone has pointed the way.  Thank you and Dale and Monty  
(and the whole team) for vision and execution.


On May 10, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Martin McClure wrote:

> 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.
>

Thanks!!
Joseph Bacanskas [|]
--- I use Smalltalk.  My amp goes to eleven.