SD Times Issue 286

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Contents
ISSUE 286 • FEBRUARY 2013
FROM THE EDITORS SPECIAL REPORT
9 Hurray! The enterprise is exciting again! Bugs on the loose!
9 Do you have Mono?
10 Feedback
NEWS
14 Investors are all about the enterprise
16 Application Developers Alliance stakes out ground
in first year
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19 Apache Cassandra 1.2 packs in the nodes
20 Mono, Microsoft build bridges FEATURES
IT and developers:
Hand in hand for MDM
Motivating
Programmers
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26 Changes in form and behavior drive changes
in development
29 Divergent views of supplemental compute
30 UrbanCode handles release management
33 Devart updates dotConnect ADO.NET providers
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COLUMNS
65 CODE WATCHby Larry O’Brien
In-memory data grids set for a big 2013
What would Map do?
66 GUEST VIEWby Angus Telfer App Server App Server App Server App Server
AMQP takes over middleware messaging
p Java Application Java Application Java Application Java Application
6 9 AThNeA FLaYllS oTf VAIpEpWle biny RTohbr Eened eArclets ale u BigMemory BigMemory BigMemory BigMemory
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70 INDUSTRY WATCHby David Rubinstein TCP TCP TCP TCP
scale ou
Time to rethink the back end for mobile
BigMemory
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COLUMNIST Larry O’Brien
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Chris Barylick, Alyson Behr, Patrick Hynds,
Lisa L. Morgan,Dave Smith,
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OPINION
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www.sdtimes.com February 2013 SD Times
FFRROOMM TTHHEE EEDDIITTOORRSS
Hurray! The enterprise is exciting again!
It has been 14 years since SD Times awakened to the fact that enterprises such companies to the public markets.
(and SDTimes.com) hit the streets, are great customers with very deep Anyone who has checked stock tick-
and since then, the Great Wheel of His- pockets. And, perhaps more important- ers recently, however, can clearly see
tory has rotated quite a few times. ly, developers have long known that that those investments didn’t always
We saw Java come, go, and come enterprise software tends to be stale, pan out. With examples like the Face-
back again. stuffy and business-like. book IPO, Zynga’s struggles and the
We watched the consumer Web take Tell that to Atlassian, AppDirect, colossal failure of mega-startup Color,
over the world through sites like Yahoo, GitHub and Splunk. With the NoSQL investors have taken black eyes in soft-
Google and Facebook. movement in full swing and the mobile ware startups despite the seeming eco-
We witnessed the demise of hun- revolution well behind us, the metaphor- nomic dominance of Silicon Valley.
dreds of companies and their hyped ical enterprise has uncrossed his arms Not only is the enterprise ready to
technologies, whether through disuse, and come down off the mountain to see embrace all this new technology,
competitive acquisition or irrelevance. just what all this hubbub is about. In sec- investors may be ready to embrace
Lately, we haven’t seen much public onds, a decision-maker can access to data those who would develop a company to
interest around enterprise IT; the focus from all across the company through sell to enterprises. And it certainly
has been on consumer tech. Indeed, RESTful APIs that access huge clusters doesn’t hurt that it’s easier than ever to
other than a brief wave of excitement of computers, all working to solve prob- sell software and services to business
around enterprise service buses, it has lems for pennies on the dollar. customers: Salesforce.com and Amazon
been quite a while since the enterprise Despite this perfect storm of enter- Web Services have both shown that
was as exciting as it is right now. prise-friendly technology, there are oth- self-service enterprise software is not
In Silicon Valley and around the er factors at play here. During the finan- only viable, it’s the right way to go.
world, enterprise software is where cial meltdown and the ensuing two If you are working in enterprise soft-
investors have decided to place their years of economic troubles, investors ware, 2013 is going to be a great year. We
money. After years of focusing on con- lined up to put their dough into con- are excited to see such interest in making
sumers in software, investors have sumer-focused startups, and to bring businesses run more smoothly. z
Do you have Mono? The good news is that, after years of
opposition to Mono, Microsoft appears
to be changing its tune, or at least isn’t
Microsoft-centric developers are 3, Wii and Xbox 360. Oh, Mono runs on singing an anti-Mono song. As you’ll read
everywhere, it seems. Yes, of Windows as well. in “Mono and .NET build up bridges” (p.
course, many development shops focus The big question for Windows-cen- 20), Mono is in a gray area, where it takes
on Eclipse, or build software in Java or tric developers looking to target other advantage of the movement of some
C++, or focus exclusively on platforms platforms: What is Microsoft’s relation Microsoft libraries into the open-source
like Linux or the Mac. However, many, to Mono? After all, Mono is essentially community, as well as the Microsoft
many, many developers live in Visual reverse-engineered .NET. It’s one thing Community Promise. Managers within
Studio, write code using C# or Visual for enthusiasts, hobbyists or small shops Microsoft have even expressed gratitude
Basic, and target the .NET runtimes on to use, say, MonoTouch or MonoDroid that Mono can bring .NET into environ-
Windows servers, the ASP.NET Web for their mobile apps, or to port their ments where Microsoft’s own develop-
environment and SQL Server. ASP.NET code to run on Mono on an ment will never go.
Being an expert in Microsoft devel- inexpensive Linux box. At present, Microsoft is leaving
opment is a wonderful career move, But bigger businesses, especially Mono alone. We believe that it’s not
and is an asset to any Microsoft shop— those who do a lot of business with going to get better than this anytime
until the developer is asked to target Microsoft or who rely upon the whole soon; don’t hold your breath for official
something that’s not a Microsoft plat- Windows Server stack, may not wish to Microsoft support for Mono. Given
form. That’s where Mono comes in, go that route without Microsoft’s bless- that, there’s still a risk to base business-
offering a runtime for .NET code on ing, or without assurance that Microsoft critical enterprise IT around Mono, but
Android, BSD, iOS, Linux, Mac OS X, won’t penalize them or rapidly render it is not a huge risk. If you are consider-
Solaris and Unix, as well as PlayStation their Mono investments invalid. ing Mono, we say go for it. z
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10
SD Times February 2013 www.sdtimes.com
FFEEEEDDBBAACCKK
Time to decelerate Turbo Pascal that ran the state math IBM iron (and the odder environ-
competition (Florida Mu Alpha Theta, ments like Lisp-machine-like TI
I for one hope that we hit some solid using Scantrons and all that), I was in a Explorer calculators, and so on).
speed LIMIT on the hardware side job writing a medical-insurance billing We all walked our own different ran-
soon (regarding “The Trouble with Ger- system on PCs in a dialect of (shudder) dom paths through those different
rold: Using all the petaflops,” available COBOL. I wonder whether anybody forests.
at sdt.bz/37169); I want to live long has compiled a history that tries to Todd Masco, Pocketdyne
enough to see mature, optimized code trace the different cross-influences of
that has been through multiple gener- the different microcomputer comput-
What do you think?
ations of evolution within the same ing environments, both among the Letters to SD Times should include the
system resource “box”! Remember home hobbyists and the research and writer’s name, company affiliation and
Borland? Just imagine what software education programmers at universi- contact information. Letters become the
would look like after all these years if ties, and the more staid environments property of BZ Media and may be edited.
Kahn of Borland’s paradigm had pre- for billing and accounting on VMS and Send to [email protected].
vailed over the Microsoft/Lotus
crowd’s lawyers. If that day comes ON THE WEB
www.sdtimes.com
when the competition is about the ele-
gance of the execution of the intent of
the programmer within stable hard-
ware performance limits, I think most
software will have that Quicken/Side-
kick feel of excellence.
Guy DeWhitney, United States
Our own
programming paths
It’s funny how our different views of
the evolution of languages (based on
“The Trouble with Gerrold: Self-
validating code,” available at
sdt.bz/37303) on micros is largely
shaped by which platforms we used. At
the time (the mid-1980s and onward), >Putting technology on a canvas
what we knew seemed like the entire
When you hear about geolocation data, you don’t think about art. But the folks
universe, without much more than
at Kaazing found a way to throw the two concepts together: “If art is a reflec-
UUCP mailing lists and BBSes to talk
tion of life, then does that make technology a reflection of art? It did recently,
to others in something resembling real
when Kaazing—the folks behind the commercial distribution of the WebSocket
time. Turbo Pascal was big on the Intel high-performance transport protocol—teamed up with the Novela Art Festival
PCs at the time (which we used in my in Toulouse, France to follow festival attendees on a ‘canvas.’” What did this
high school), but the Apple II world collaboration mean? Read more at www.sdtimes.com/blog/2142.
was very different and still significant
at that time. And in universities, the >Getting open source to say ‘Hello’ to the mainstream
Unix world, with its ubiquitous C, was “Marketing” usually means money and (perhaps) unsavory messaging. Open-
just emerging (Sun 2s and IBM RTs source proponents have been reluctant to use it. But the time may have come
and more at Carnegie Mellon Univer- to reconsider, says Chris Barylick: “The open-source community has some
sity), and the DEC world with VMS incredible successes under its belt, now it just needs to ascend to the
and its family of languages had its own next level, make itself known, and become more widely known and readily
niche of professional programmers, considered when decisions are made.” Do you agree? Read more at
and so on. www.sdtimes.com/blog/2143.
Hell, a year after I wrote a system in