The Invisible Database

At the recent TechWave Symposium in Washington, DC, I spoke about Multi-tenant architectures with SQL Anywhere. In my talk, I outlined some of the different architectural approaches to serving up data for several customers or “tenants”. The need for an ability to serve data for many customers usually shows up in hosted environments. This approach [...]

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Intuit has been long time OEM partner of Sybase iAnywhere, and bundles SQL Anywhere into their QuickBooks product. Earlier this week I was doing some research on Intuit’s Partner Platform ( IPP ) and came across this recent interview with Intuit founder Scott Cook on the IPP Team Blog. Cook is being interviewed by Bill [...]

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…unless you are Don Norman. In his recent article published in interactions magazine, the journal of the ACM Special Interest Group in Computer/Human Interaction, Norman makes the case that too many products are thought of only in their physical terms, and not as a customer experience. “In reality a product is all about the experience.” [...]

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Last week I attended the Sybase TechWave Symposium in Washington, DC. I posted PDFs of my talks on my Presentations page. TechWave was a great opportunity to meet many customers and partners. I was particularly impressed with the variety of systems being implemented by our customers using SQL Anywhere. I always learn something when I [...]

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