Servoy CEO, Jan Aleman, was quoted in Processor Magazine in a Cloud Computing article titled “Happenings In The Cloud: A Look At Technologies & Trends That Are Developing In The Cloud Computing Market.”

Here’s a snippet of the article:

“However, cloud computing does not mean users are limited to working 100% in the cloud. An emerging trend is the use of ‘SaaS and Back’ hybrid applications that can be deployed as SaaS or on-premises through a browser and a native client, says Jan Aleman, CEO at Servoy. This new hybrid platform, adds Aleman, gives users the option of running their applications hosted online — on dedicated servers, virtual servers, or any form of cloud computing — or on-premises.”

Read the full article.

Servoy has been invited to present at the industry’s premiere Linux conference, on August 31-September 1 in São Paulo, Brazil. LinuxCon is the premiere Linux conference in both North America and Asia, and is now being extended into South America.

Find out more about the conference details.

Read Servoy’s presentation on “Hybrid Cloud - The Green Future”.

Servoy 5.2 now ships with PostgreSQL instead of Sybase ASA as the built-in database. Because of this change in default database engines, and to take advantage of the increased scalability, portability and features of PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL Experts Inc. is pleased to offer Servoy users a database conversion service from Sybase ASA to PostgreSQL 8.4 — all you need to do is upload your existing Sybase database file(s).

Find out more information about converting to PostgreSQL.

It is a time of progress at Servoy. After rolling out the new Servoy 5.2 release, it was time to upgrade the design of the Servoy website.

The Servoy homepage has been redesigned to help people new to Servoy easily find their way through the Servoy eco-space — using direct links to the most interesting bits of information; a good overview of what Servoy is; the main features of Servoy, and much more.

Visit the new Servoy website.

Servoy announces the creation of Servoy MarketPlace - THE place for all Servoy Alliance Network (SAN) Members to showcase their product(s) to the Servoy general public, such as:

• Servoy Applications
• Modules
• Example solutions
• Documentation
• Demos
• Beans
• Plugins
• Tutorials

Read more information about Servoy Marketplace.

Servoy University is a new third-party online portal providing Servoy training videos and certification. The University has gathered all the existing videos and put them nicely together in one spot — versioned and tagged for your convenience. More importantly, the portal also hosts a range of new, up-to-date videos on Servoy 5.2. As of today, you can sign up for access to the Servoy University premium videos which will be available at a yearly subscription fee. The first premium series available is the Servoy Developer Certification series, which contains over 40 videos totalling 10 hours of Servoy 5.2 training material! By August 9th, the Developer Certification series will be completely finished.

In September, Servoy University will launch the Servoy Certification program. This will allow you, your team, and your employees to receive official Servoy Certification. More information about certification will be available soon. The team behind Servoy University is devoted to continuously bring you more videos and series, on new topics or Servoy versions. Servoy University is built on the Servoy Platform and led by Scott Butler and Bob Cusick.

Get more information about Servoy University.

Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, was interviewed on the CS Techcast episode 124 titled “Using Open Source in the Cloud”.

You can watch Jan’s interview starting at minute 17′.

“This week at CSTechcast.com, we talk about how the cloud is moving forward with open-source standards and how cloud computing will look in a few years with Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy and secretary of EuroCloud compendium. You can find more at Servoy.com.”

Click here to watch the CS Techcast interview:

http://www.cstechcast.com/podcasts/cs-techcast/episode124/

Team sharing is an important topic for developers that work with other developers. It is critical to have tools that will allow development teams to have the confidence to work in the same projects without the fear of losing code changes — because someone has overwritten shared code. Another tool that is important to code maintenance is the ability to work on similar or future projects without disrupting the current code.

This webinar, presented by Jason Meunier, Servoy Senior Technical Engineer, will discuss the following topics related to team sharing in Servoy:

• Servoy Team Sharing Repository
• Subversion
• Servoy Team Sharing vs. Subversion
• Installing/Setting up Subversion in Servoy
• Using Servoy Workbench tools to work with your code repositories — commit, update, sync.
• Code management — viewing histories, branching, tagging.
• Discussing how using a code repository can help the single developer.

Register now for this webinar.

Servoy is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the new ServoyForge site — a community initiative led by Robert Ivens, SAN Developer and CEO of ROCLASI Software Solutions. ServoyForge is an effort that Servoy endorses and will actively provide its own contributions to.

The mission of ServoyForge is to organize Servoy Open Source projects into a centralized community-owned platform; enable talented Servoy/Java developers to contribute more easily; and offer innovative Open Source components to the Servoy community at large.

ServoyForge is already:

• The largest repository of Servoy Open Source components (plugins/beans/solutions/modules)
• A brand new collaboration platform for everything Servoy Open Source Software (SOSS)
• Best-of-breed tools tailored for the management of Servoy development projects
• A site built by the community for the community, by developers for developers
• The place where YOU TOO can share your ideas and projects with a team of Servoy and Java developers all over the globe

Check out and bookmark ServoyForge.

Register at ServoyForge now and get ready to boost your Servoy development projects!

Cloud Computing Journal has published an article titled “Hybrid Cloud - The Green Future” written by Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO.

Here is a snippet from the article:

“Cloud adoption has been steadily growing over the years, but both in spite of and because of the economy, 2010 promises to be the inflection point of wide-scale cloud adoption. Those companies that were unaware, or semi-aware of the Cloud can no longer ignore the strong value proposition of access to previously inaccessible productivity tools; the ability to collaborate with teams, partners and customers; shifting focus from IT to business, and improving speed-to-market through instantly set up solutions.”

Click here to read the full article.