pemurray@interrasys.com wrote: Bruce,
Excellent and insightful article!!
Sybase has a fabulous product in PowerBuilder. It is a shame that developers are under pressure to move away from it. Your note that there may not be enough PowerBuilder developers is a chicken and egg problem for Sybase.
Sybase needs to be agressive in several areas to reverse the tide.
1) The pricing has to change. Would it not be better to have many thousands of people buying it for half of its current list price rather than rely on a h...
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Adobe Thursday turned its little piece of Disneyland
for developers loose.
The pre-release of Flash Player 10, a k a “Astro,” which
promises richer, more immersive Web 2.0 experiences, has gone to public beta
ahead of general availability sometime later this year.
It adds custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation
and animation, extensible rich text layout and GPU hardware acceleration. Adobe
thinks it’s a game changer about what can go on the web.
The custom filters and effects come compliments of the free
Hydra toolkit – now officially called Pixel Bender – that borrows from Adobe’s
After Effects CS3 software, an industry standard for creating motion graphics
and visual effects for film and broadcast.
Developers can create their own filters, blend modes and
fills by writing small pixel-shading functions to create movie-like animated
effects or morph the effects on rich media content at runtime without slowing
down performance.
It can offload the work on to the GPU, freeing up the CPU to
render 3D content and sexy effects and process complex business logic. Adobe
says no other browser runtime can do this.
The widgetry will rotate and support ligatures in fonts;
allow vertical, bi-directional and right-to-left text layouts and ultimately
automatically adjust video quality if bandwidth fluctuates to provide constant
video playback without pausing to buffer.
Adobe said Flash Player 10’s innovations will show up in AIR
and its new Open Screen Project, which is set on delivering a consistent runtime
environment across PCs, mobile devices and consumer electronics.
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Adobe Thursday turned its little piece of 
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