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Linux-Announce Digest #191, Volume #4 Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:13:02 EDT
Contents:
InterSystems Launches =?iso-8859-1?Q?CACH=C9?= 5 (Kate Jones)
[LOCAL] Central Ohio Linux User Group September Meeting Announcement ("J. Jacob Hopkins")
Commercial: Ace Operator - web-based call-center (Robin McElroy)
[PROJECT ANNOUNCE] autopackage package manager (Mike Hearn)
COMMENT: Ten ways to promote communication within a LUG... (Frederick Noronha)
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From: Kate Jones <kjones@shoorpr.com>
Subject: InterSystems Launches =?iso-8859-1?Q?CACH=C9?= 5
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:20:15 GMT
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InterSystems Corporation today raised the database performance bar with
the announcement of CACHÉ 5. The new version of the company’s
post-relational database enables real-time analytics in transaction
processing environments, a technology breakthrough in an area where
demand from application developers and IT executives is building
quickly. For more information, please contact Jim Beasley of Shoor &
Company, Inc. at 803-699-0710 or by email at jbeasley@shoorpr.com. Press
release follows.
=================================================================
Editorial Contacts
Jim Beasley
Shoor & Company
(803) 699-0710
jbeasley@shoorpr.com
Maureen Flaherty
InterSystems
(617) 621-0600
flaherty@intersystems.com
InterSystems Launches CACHÉ 5
Post-Relational Database Wins Race to Deliver
Real-time Analytics for Transaction Processing
Runs 200 Times Faster than Oracle in Benchmark
Major New Release Also Delivers Fast Web Services, Enterprise Java
Support
______________________________________________________________________
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— September 23, 2002—InterSystems Corporation today
raised the database performance bar with the announcement of CACHÉ 5.
The new version of the company’s post-relational database enables
real-time analytics in transaction processing environments, a technology
breakthrough in an area where demand from application developers and IT
executives is building quickly.
“High performance analytics for data warehousing has been around for
years, but the poor update performance of the bit map indexes used in
warehousing applications has made them unusable in transaction
processing environments,” says Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems vice
president of strategic planning. “Our new Transactional Bit Map Index
technology makes CACHÉ the first database to address this need.”
The world’s leading database provider in healthcare and recognized as a
database technology innovator in transaction processing, InterSystems
delivers high performance, highly scalable database products for Web and
client/server applications.
Benchmark Results Validate CACHÉ Speed
The new Transactional Bit Map Indexing available in CACHÉ 5 will be
especially useful for complex queries, according to Ken Billings, CIO at
Molecular Pathology Laboratory Network, a CACHÉ 5 beta user. Molecular
Pathology specializes in genomic laboratory medicine, including DNA
testing for infectious diseases, molecular oncology, mutational
analysis, and human identity testing. “We went live in August on the Web
with a CACHÉ-based lab system that we built in-house,” Billings says.
“The ability to handle non-standard data types like graphics, images,
DNA sequences, microarrays, and time series data was critical. We’ve
converted a lot of our indexes to CACHÉ Transactional Bit Map Indexing,
and the search speed is simply incredible.”
CACHÉ 5 provides the query performance advantages of advanced indexing
technology with update performance equal to that of traditional indexes,
explains Grabscheid. Based on benchmarks run by InterSystems during
CACHÉ beta testing, the result is an extremely powerful combination.
“When benchmarking query and update performance of CACHÉ compared to
Oracle on a 10-million row table, CACHÉ ran more than 200 times faster,”
Grabscheid says.
>From its inception, CACHÉ was targeted to enable developers to rapidly
build and deploy high performance, highly scalable transaction
processing applications, according to Grabscheid. “That’s been our niche
and the focus of our R&D efforts since the first CACHÉ product release
went to market. Legacy relational technologies have not traditionally
been optimized to deliver comparable functionality in the areas of
performance, scalability and rapid development, and the difference shows
clearly in performance benchmarks,” he says.
Grabscheid cites a study published earlier this year by the KLAS
Enterprises research and consulting firm as another example of the
results of InterSystems’ focus on transactional performance. The KLAS
study compared the performance of leading healthcare applications using
InterSystems or Oracle database systems. Based on a survey of 110
healthcare IT executives, InterSystems’ software rated higher than
Oracle on every measure.
CACHÉ 5 Flexibility: Fast Web Services, Fast Enterprise Java
CACHÉ 5 also includes high performance support for both Microsoft .Net
and Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). “Most IT organizations, VARs, ISVs
and professional application developers are working with either
Microsoft .Net or Java Infrastructures—some with both,” says Grabscheid.
“CACHÉ 5 provides the flexibility to enable organizations to make their
own framework choice and the speed to build high performance
applications quickly in either or both environments,” Grabscheid says.
Key features include:
CACHÉ Web Services—Built-in support for Web Services, without requiring
a separate application server or other complications. CACHÉ is fully
compatible with both .Net and Java frameworks for Web Services, but is
not dependent on either. Any CACHÉ object method or stored procedure
can automatically be exposed as a Web Service, with full SOAP and WSDL
support. Existing CACHÉ applications can be Web Services enabled without
modification and new Web Services applications can be built very
rapidly. CACHÉ 5 features bi-directional XML and there is no need for
developer-defined mapping of XML to internal database structures.
CACHÉ Enterprise Java—In the past, J2EE developers had to choose between
Container Managed Persistence (CMP), which is easy to work with but
slow, or Bean Managed Persistence (BMP), which requires extensive
development work but can deliver fast performance. CACHÉ 5 automates
BMP, making it easier to work with than other vendors’ CMP, while
enabling very high performance.
CACHÉ Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP)—The successor to InterSystems’
Distributed Cache Protocol, which was optimized for large-scale
client/server applications, ECP is architected for the extensive thin
client deployments typical of enterprise Web systems. Including a new
distributed concurrency engine and support for massive distributed cache
memory, ECP delivers top-tier performance and scalability for
multi-server configurations.
CACHÉ 5 will be priced at US$200 in a single-user version and starting
at US$1,000 for a multi-user configuration. Supported platforms include
Windows (Windows 95 upwards), Linux, HP Open VMS, and Major UNIX
platforms including IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and Sun
Solaris.
About InterSystems
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., InterSystems Corporation
(www.InterSystems.com) is the leading provider of high performance
database systems for Web applications, with over four million users
worldwide. InterSystems' flagship product, CACHÉ, is a post-relational
database with a multidimensional data and application server offering
ultra-fast and massively scalable objects and SQL, real-time analytics
and outstanding transactional performance. CACHÉ features breakthrough
rapid development technology for building objects and object
applications.
How To Write with an Accent: Press and hold ALT and enter 144 on the
numeric keypad to put the accent on CACHÉ.
###
Trademark Notes: CACHÉ is a trademark of InterSystems Corporation. Other
trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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<html>
InterSystems Corporation today raised the database performance bar with
the announcement of CACHÉ 5. The new version of the company’s post-relational
database enables real-time analytics in transaction processing environments,
a technology breakthrough in an area where demand from application developers
and IT executives is building quickly. For more information, please contact
Jim Beasley of Shoor & Company, Inc. at 803-699-0710 or by email at
jbeasley@shoorpr.com. Press release follows.
<center>
<p>=================================================================</center>
<p>Editorial Contacts
<br>Jim Beasley
<br>Shoor & Company
<br>(803) 699-0710
<br>jbeasley@shoorpr.com
<p>Maureen Flaherty
<br>InterSystems
<br>(617) 621-0600
<br>flaherty@intersystems.com
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<center>
<p><b>InterSystems Launches CACHÉ 5</b>
<p><b>Post-Relational Database Wins Race to Deliver</b>
<br><b>Real-time Analytics for Transaction Processing</b>
<p><i>Runs 200 Times Faster than Oracle in Benchmark</i>
<p><i>Major New Release Also Delivers Fast Web Services, Enterprise Java
Support</i></center>
<p>______________________________________________________________________
<p><b>CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— September 23, 2002—</b>InterSystems Corporation
today raised the database performance bar with the announcement of CACHÉ
5. The new version of the company’s post-relational database enables real-time
analytics in transaction processing environments, a technology breakthrough
in an area where demand from application developers and IT executives is
building quickly.
<p>“High performance analytics for data warehousing has been around for
years, but the poor update performance of the bit map indexes used in warehousing
applications has made them unusable in transaction processing environments,”
says Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems vice president of strategic planning.
“Our new Transactional Bit Map Index technology makes CACHÉ the
first database to address this need.”
<p>The world’s leading database provider in healthcare and recognized as
a database technology innovator in transaction processing, InterSystems
delivers high performance, highly scalable database products for Web and
client/server applications.
<p><b>Benchmark Results Validate CACHÉ Speed</b>
<p>The new Transactional Bit Map Indexing available in CACHÉ 5 will
be especially useful for complex queries, according to Ken Billings, CIO
at Molecular Pathology Laboratory Network, a CACHÉ 5 beta user.
Molecular Pathology specializes in genomic laboratory medicine, including
DNA testing for infectious diseases, molecular oncology, mutational analysis,
and human identity testing. “We went live in August on the Web with a CACHÉ-based
lab system that we built in-house,” Billings says. “The ability to handle
non-standard data types like graphics, images, DNA sequences, microarrays,
and time series data was critical. We’ve converted a lot of our indexes
to CACHÉ Transactional Bit Map Indexing, and the search speed is
simply incredible.”
<p>CACHÉ 5 provides the query performance advantages of advanced
indexing technology with update performance equal to that of traditional
indexes, explains Grabscheid. Based on benchmarks run by InterSystems during
CACHÉ beta testing, the result is an extremely powerful combination.
“When benchmarking query and update performance of CACHÉ compared
to Oracle on a 10-million row table, CACHÉ ran more than 200 times
faster,” Grabscheid says.
<p>From its inception, CACHÉ was targeted to enable developers to
rapidly build and deploy high performance, highly scalable transaction
processing applications, according to Grabscheid. “That’s been our niche
and the focus of our R&D efforts since the first CACHÉ product
release went to market. Legacy relational technologies have not traditionally
been optimized to deliver comparable functionality in the areas of performance,
scalability and rapid development, and the difference shows clearly in
performance benchmarks,” he says.
<p>Grabscheid cites a study published earlier this year by the KLAS Enterprises
research and consulting firm as another example of the results of InterSystems’
focus on transactional performance. The KLAS study compared the performance
of leading healthcare applications using InterSystems or Oracle database
systems. Based on a survey of 110 healthcare IT executives, InterSystems’
software rated higher than Oracle on every measure.
<p><b>CACHÉ 5 Flexibility: Fast Web Services, Fast Enterprise
Java</b>
<p>CACHÉ 5 also includes high performance support for both Microsoft
.Net and Java Enterprise Edition (J2EE). “Most IT organizations, VARs,
ISVs and professional application developers are working with either Microsoft
.Net or Java Infrastructures—some with both,” says Grabscheid.
<p>“CACHÉ 5 provides the flexibility to enable organizations to
make their own framework choice and the speed to build high performance
applications quickly in either or both environments,” Grabscheid says.
Key features include:
<p><b>CACHÉ Web Services</b>—Built-in support for Web Services,
without requiring a separate application server or other complications.
CACHÉ is fully compatible with both .Net and Java frameworks for
Web Services, but is not dependent on either. Any CACHÉ object
method or stored procedure can automatically be exposed as a Web Service,
with full SOAP and WSDL support. Existing CACHÉ applications can
be Web Services enabled without modification and new Web Services applications
can be built very rapidly. CACHÉ 5 features bi-directional XML and
there is no need for developer-defined mapping of XML to internal database
structures.
<p><b>CACHÉ Enterprise Java</b>—In the past, J2EE developers had
to choose between Container Managed Persistence (CMP), which is easy to
work with but slow, or Bean Managed Persistence (BMP), which requires extensive
development work but can deliver fast performance. CACHÉ 5 automates
BMP, making it easier to work with than other vendors’ CMP, while enabling
very high performance.
<p><b>CACHÉ Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP)</b>—The successor to
InterSystems’ Distributed Cache Protocol, which was optimized for large-scale
client/server applications, ECP is architected for the extensive thin client
deployments typical of enterprise Web systems. Including a new distributed
concurrency engine and support for massive distributed cache memory, ECP
delivers top-tier performance and scalability for multi-server configurations.
<p>CACHÉ 5 will be priced at US$200 in a single-user version and
starting at US$1,000 for a multi-user configuration. Supported platforms
include Windows (Windows 95 upwards), Linux, HP Open VMS, and Major UNIX
platforms including IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and Sun
Solaris.
<p><b>About InterSystems</b>
<p>Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., InterSystems Corporation (<a href="http:/www.InterSystems.com">www.InterSystems.com</a>)
is the leading provider of high performance database systems for Web applications,
with over four million users worldwide. InterSystems' flagship product,
CACHÉ, is a post-relational database with a multidimensional data
and application server offering ultra-fast and massively scalable objects
and SQL, real-time analytics and outstanding transactional performance.
CACHÉ features breakthrough rapid development technology for building
objects and object applications.
<p><font size=-1>How To Write with an Accent: Press and hold ALT and enter
144 on the numeric keypad to put the accent on CACHÉ.</font>
<center>
<p>###</center>
<p><font size=-1>Trademark Notes: CACHÉ is a trademark of InterSystems
Corporation. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners.</font>
<br> </html>
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From: "J. Jacob Hopkins" <jacob@colug.net>
Subject: [LOCAL] Central Ohio Linux User Group September Meeting Announcement
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:20:18 GMT
Followup-to: colugx@colug.net
MEETING NOTICE
==============
Central Ohio Linux Users Group
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM local
Meeting Presentation
====================
The September meeting will feature presentations on the
Debian Project and the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, by
Colin Walters, and networking by Brian Schrock.
As usual, problem machines and users may be brought in
for help, support, and last rites. The always popular
"stump the chump" and Q/A session will be welcome as well.
The upcoming meeting is open to the general public, and all
with an interest in Free Software, Open Source, Apache, MySQL,
Perl, PHP, sendmail, Linux, BSD, Unix, Windows, or whatever,
are invited. Well ... maybe not Windows, except those in
recovery ...
MEETING SITE:
=============
The September 2002 meeting will be held at:
Ohio Civil Service Employees Association
390 Worthington Rd
Westerville, OH 43082
Directions can be found to the meeting location at
http://www.colug.net/maps/ocsea.php
...The group has met on the LAST Wednesday or LAST Saturday of a
month, alternating by month to allow more folks to mesh their
schedules with COLUG's. Sites and dates also depend on facility
availabity, with common-sense relocation in the holiday season.
The webpage often has a link to a map to the upcoming meeting
site. See: http://www.colug.net/meetings.php The website is
always authoritative to other discussions, such as might be seen
on the mailing list.
Meeting Schedule
================
The NEXT month's following meeting is scheduled on Saturday,
October 26 2002 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
Additional information
======================
Call Phil Hunter (Owl River Company) at 614 - 840 - 0935 .
info@owlriver.com http://www.owlriver.com/
================================================================
Check out the web site at: http://www.colug.net/
Send administrative mail to: colugx@colug.net with any questions
There exists a Mailman driven list -- send an email as above, or
see for details at: http://www.colug.net/mailing_list.php
-- Phil Hunter
hunter@owlriver.com
Owl River Company
"The World is Open to Linux (tm)"
... Open Source LINUX solutions ...
~COLUG/meeting/meeting.0209.txt
rev. 020920 JH -- mails to COLA, when possible, on the 18th
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From: Robin McElroy <robin.mcelroy@quik-j.com>
Subject: Commercial: Ace Operator - web-based call-center
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:20:21 GMT
Reply-To: robin.mcelroy@quik-j.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
QUIK Computing, Inc. announces the first public release of Ace
Operator
September 2,2002
Raleigh, NC
QUIK Computing is pleased to announce the first public release of its
flagship product - Ace Operator. Ace Operator is an instant messaging
call center solution that can be accessed from web pages. Using Ace
Operator, online service providers can easily add a "live help" button
to any or all of their web pages. By simply clicking on the "live help"
button, online customers can get access to company representatives and
exchange information in real-time. Ace Operator is ideal for online
entities such as online stores that need to provide interactive help to
their customers. It is also suitable for customer support centers and
online training centers.
Ace Operator works like a conventional telephone-based call center
solution. Instead of using the phone system and voice for communication
between company representatives and customers, Ace Operator uses the
Internet and instant messaging. It supports all the standard features of
an operator services system including call queuing, skills-based
grouping and routing, call transfers and conferencing. It has several
advantages over a conventional call-center solution, namely:
1. The system can be operational at a fraction of the cost of
conventional call centers.
2. The system allows company representatives to connect to the system
from anywhere - from home, from another state and even from
another country.
3. In addition to exchanging real-time messages, company
representatives can push informational web pages, pictures and
other media to customers. Representatives can even send predefined
forms to customers that the customer can fill in and return online.
For more information on the product features, visit: http://www.quik-j.com.
The product can be installed within minutes using an easy-to-use
graphical installer that is suitable for users with very little
knowledge of computers. The package bundles all the necessary software
components required to run the service and comes with a comprehensive
user manual. The product is currently supported on systems running
Linux, Windows and Solaris.
"Ace Operator is not the only product that is available in this arena.
However, Ace Operator is the only product that can get a business up and
running with a feature-rich call center solution at such an inexpensive
price," said Steve Lawrence, Product Manager for QUIK Computing. The
software can run on an inexpensive computer and requires a relatively
low bandwidth Internet connection. It can even be set up to run from
homes having a simple broadband connection like xDSL or cable modem.
"QUIK Computing is also the only company that provides customization of
the Ace Operator product to suit a company's specific needs because no
two call centers have the same requirements. We will even license the
source code for Ace Operator if necessary," said Steve Lawrence.
A FREE version of the software can be downloaded from the QUIK Computing
web site. It allows up to 2 company representatives to chat with online
customers simultaneously. For sites requiring additional
representatives, additional licenses can be purchased from the QUIK
Computing web site. Pricing information is available from the web site.
The current downloadable version is a beta version. It runs reliably but
has a few minor bugs that are being corrected. It is expected to become
production quality software by October 15, 2002.
About QUIK Computing:
QUIK Computing is a tightly knit group of software developers with
extensive experience working for leading software companies. Every QUIK
Computing developer is an independent thinker with expertise in multiple
disciplines and a passion for software development. Our developers
collaborate on every project to create a blueprint for the solution and
implement it using state-of-the-art development and testing tools.
Contact Information:
URL: http://www.quik-j.com
E-mail: info@quik-j.com <mailto:info@quik-j.com> , sales@quik-j.com
<mailto:sales@quik-j.com>
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From: Mike Hearn <mike@theoretic.com>
Subject: [PROJECT ANNOUNCE] autopackage package manager
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:20:25 GMT
Hi, I just thought I'd announce the launch of autopackage
(http://autopackage.org/).
It's a(nother) package manager with a few twists that I think make it
sufficiently unique enough to warrant interest:
- It's distro-neutral, you can build a .package file once, and it will
install onto many different distros (though for different binary formats
there may be several sub-packages that are merged together).
- It has support for multiple front ends and user interaction out of the
box. This means users can customize their install using a command line
or graphical UI, but if a network install is required you can just
record some choices and then play them back.
- Unique style of dependancy tracking: rather than maintain a huge
database that is supposed to reflect the system, autopackage checks the
system itself for each needed dependancy. This means you can install
other packages from the source, from other package managers, or even
just copy the file straight from another computer and autopackage will
still work fine.
- Distributed DNS style network (not yet started). Rather than have huge
apt style repositories maintained by thousands of packagers, the idea is
that the software developers themselves should also be the packagers,
and then the autopackage network provides a way of locating the correct
package given a root name (ie of the form @gnome.org/libxml/2.0). This
decentralised mechanism is more flexible and can scale better than
previous attempts at automatic dependancy download networks.
- Very small overhead. A .package file is actually a self extracting
executable, that will offer to download the autopackage tools themselves
if they are not present. This could be compared to the InstallShield
method of shipping the install logic with the app. However, unlike
InstallShield, the overhead associated with autopackage is very small
(currently ~20k).
- It caters for all tastes, from the command line user to Linux newbies.
You can "run" a .package file, and will be taken through the install
process from start to finish with a friendly graphical GUI if you are
using say Konqueror/Nautilus. Alternatively, just run the package from
the command line with a few switches and you get standard rpm style
"instant" installs.
It's written largely in bash for portability (and because this language
is well suited to the task at hand), and more bash hackers are needed.
Don't worry if you don't know the language, there is an intro guide on
the site, and there is a function library available that makes it much
easier to write bash scripts.
If you're interested then please sign up for the mailing list, hopefully
we can kick start this effort.
thanks -mike
(autopackage developer)
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: COMMENT: Ten ways to promote communication within a LUG...
Date: 27 Sep 2002 01:20:28 GMT
Ten ways to promote communication within a LUG:
***********************************************************************
* Build a list of LUG speakers, and the topics they specialise on.
* List readily available GNU/Linux software, where available, and
under what terms it can be borrowed.
* Set up your own website.
* Mailing-lists play an important role for communicating between meetings.
* List LUG members and contact details.
* Try to get new LUG members to introduce themselves on the mailing list.
* Expanding numbers is important
* Report regularly on LUG meetings. This build bridges to those not present.
* Plan for LUG meetings well in advance. Meetings with fixed agendas
generally attract more people than vague, no-agenda meetings.
* If nothing else works, trying to build more mini-LUGs in your area.
You never know how many LUGs need to be set up to uncover hidden
resources. [Compiled from various inputs by FN]
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