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Mobility Platforms
I've just posted a blog on my personal site regarding the topic of Mobile Platforms. This space is heating up with many players vying to be the Windows of the Mobile world as the OS player including Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone OS, Android, Symbian, LiMo, Brew, etc.. With the huge number of the devices that will profilerate (already at around 3.3 billion) and huge revenue opportunities this seems to be the next big battle ground.
Few new plays in this space recently:
- Android comes out with its first phone and first looks provides a very open platform for developers to extend functionality.
- Symbian taken over Nokia essentially rendering motorola and other handset manufacturers to choose their own course although
- they've said it will be open sourced.
- Heard recently about LiMo foundation to deliver low foot print Linux.
ASE CE and Shameless Self-Promotion
I'm getting ready to get on a plane in a few hours, but before I leave I thought I'd take a few minutes to do some shameless self-promotion.
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Now that TechWave is over ...
Howdy everyone. It's the unofficial end of Summer, and definitely time for me to post again. First of all, in case you haven't noticed, there is a new disclaimer on the bottom of the blogs main page. Read on why it's there.
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Techwave 2008 - It's all good baby!!
You know it's a good sign when the food starts tasting much better :) That is how I compare year after year. For some reason, I personally felt a lot of energy and optimism from attendees and had great traffic at my booth. More than that, there were many great questions from the folks attending the conference, which is always good.
I managed to stay reasonably busy in the SUP booth with good traffic although there was a lack of chairs. We were positioned next to the various techathlon events that were being held and I managed to show off my non-existent footie skills.
I'm excited getting closer to release date for SUP. It's been an excellent group effort to get it out considering we had teams in Paris, Pune, Singapore, Shanghai, Xian, Dublin, London, etc. Hardest was coordinating conference calls within the teams. Techwave gave me a chance to start putting the message out with real demos and there were some good questions about the product that we've also been thinking about and it validated some of our future direction. The developer tools message was well received by the audience and they felt that would simplify their development efforts a lot.
And I did have some fun too. WHIVSIV :)
Opening day at Techwave 2008 - Vegas
Yesterday was the opening day at Techwave in Vegas. I attended the keynote by John Chen and captured some keypoints; overall he sounded very optimistic regarding the direction in which we are headed. He also had a plug in for Sybase Unwired Platform demo that I had done to him last week and that was cool :) If you are interested in looking at the demo he was "raving" about, come over to the expo hall and I'll be there in the SUP booth. I also have a flash of an application build by a partner (iTask) based out of South Africa and they are around if you are interested in finding out how they have leveraged SUP for their mobile application framework.
You can also view the keynotes online here.
Some of the key points I captured from his keynote:
* Growth in the database revenue..
* State of the business
o IP
* 30 product releases
* 14 patents
* 15% spent on R&D
o Customer momentum
* Over 1200 new customers
* 800 mobile enterprises
* 200 new IQ customers
* 164 new messaging customers
* 800m new mobile subscribers
o People
* 9 best places to work awards
o Market leadership
* Gartner magic quadrants, forester waves
o Revenue Performance
* 16% revenue growth
* Shareholder return consistently returning more than major indices and peers
* Unwired Enterprise – Market Trends
o Growth in devices and smart phones
o 3.5b mobile subscribers
o 35% growth in world wide broadband adoption
o Data volume and velocity growth.
* What has been Sybase working on
o Mbanking and MMS 365
o RAP- The trading edition
o ASE Cluster edition
o Sybase Unwired Platform
o SQL Anywhere 11
o Afaria 6.0
o PowerBuilder 11.5
* Growth – where is it
o 32% CAGR for IQ
o 111% CAGR for Mobility
o 72% for mobile subscribers reached.
Was'SUP : The tooling story - Visual Studio or Eclipse; your choice, we support!!
Once upon a time the developers kingdom got split into two provinces, Visual Studio (Windows Platform) and Eclipse (Windows and every other platform) based on various factors like corporate IT decisions, deployment environment, language familiarity, etc. There were some other splinter provinces like (Netbeans, etc.) which continued to have a decent community but not large enough to cause any trouble.
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Outside the Data Center
 Hello, my name is Dave Neudoerffer, Vice President of engineering for Sybase iAnywhere. So you think you know what SQL Anywhere is…SQL Anywhere 11 just might change your mind. SQL Anywhere is actually a lot of different things. But first and foremost, it is a database management system for managing data outside the traditional data center. There are a lot of places of business where you need to manage data, but you don’t have administrators and IT staff to keep an enterprise type DBMS running. A common misconception here is that this is about managing and syncing data on a mobile device. Well, that's part of it, but a small part actually. We see serious data in retail stores, warehouses, small businesses, departments of large businesses, in manufacturing plants, and behind a lot of common software and systems such as accounting systems, point of sale, network management software, backup systems, phone systems, contact relationship management systems and inspection systems.
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Was'SUP - No, I'm not that cool, it's still geek speak!!
You are going to hear a lot of this feeble attempt at humor from the resident geeks at Techwave (I guess we can exclude the marketing folks as they are pretty cool). If you have been attending the past few years of Techwave or visited Sybase home page or may be have attended any one of the presentations over the last few years, there has been a lot of chatter about Unwired Enterprise Platform.
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Where's Ian???
I have been working on TechWave for many months now, with respect to the Breakout Session content and I am really excited that we are nearly two weeks away from being in Las Vegas again.
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Analytics at TechWave
 Hi, I’m Bill Jacobs, Director of Analytics and Integration Evangelism for Sybase and an admittedly an infrequent blogger. That will change. I’ve worked with a variety of Sybase integration and analytics products my 8 years with Sybase and will bring more of that experience to bear right here in the Sybase blog center.
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