The Invisible Database

Migration onto and off from a cloud environment is something important to many ISVs. As I mentioned last week, the ability to easily move onto a cloud architecture is just as important as the ability to easily move off from a cloud environment to many of the ISVs I’ve spoken with. The phrase “On-Ramp to [...]

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In my previous post, I identified several challenges that ISVs face when considering a cloud offering for their software. Many of the ISV partners I have spoken with are looking for options that allow them to continue to offer their existing on-premise solution for customers, while creating additional cloud based offerings. To reiterate, some of [...]

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Continuing my thoughts from my last post, I would like to expand on the idea that users of a computing solution are not religious about the architecture, as long as the solution actually solves their problems and makes their lives easier. Software vendors or ISVs have long existed to create software solutions, that when combined [...]

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I paraphrase the famous proclamation “The King is dead. Long live the King.” The essence of the kingly proclamation is that the current king has died, and the transfer of sovereignty has occurred immediately to the next in line; the new king. In “times past” (referring to the last 3-4 years), the phrase “cloud computing” [...]

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As we start into 2011, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. As the year starts, I offer a few observations about the year that was, and the year that is to be, for the SQL Anywhere development team here in Waterloo, Ontario. 2010 Our team celebrated an important release in 2010, [...]

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