On July 28th, Servoy 6.0 was officially released. With the sixth edition of its award winning platform, Servoy continues to simplify and speed up the development of hybrid applications that can be deployed anywhere.

The 6th edition of the Servoy Next Generation Platform focuses on developer productivity, ease of use and extending the overall capabilities of the platform.

Servoy 6.0 has over 200 new and improved features, including:

* Unparalleled support for JavaScript refactoring and design-time code validation
* Redesigned Form Editor for easier form design
* Conditional styling

Check out the complete overview of all new features and enhancements.

On August 11, Servoy hosted a one-hour webinar with Paul Bakker, Servoy Product Manager, on what’s new in Servoy 6.0. Attendees “sat on the edge of their seat” as Paul went through the new release’s main new features and tricks.

View the recorded “Official Launch of Servoy 6.0″ webinar.

Join Paul Bakker, Servoy Product Manager, in this one-hour webinar on what’s new in Servoy 6.0 - you’ll be sitting at the edge of your seat the whole time! Paul will be demo-ing Servoy 6’s new features and demonstrate in more detail how to use them when developing applications, so don’t miss this opportunity.

Register for this webinar.

NETRONIC Software GmbH, a leading supplier of enterprise software to interactively visualize complex data with Gantt, tree and network charts, and IT2BE, a leading developer of Servoy Plug-ins and Beans, have announced that their joint Servoy Gantt software has been gaining significant market momentum recently. Leading Servoy developers decided to integrate the NETRONIC/IT2BE Gantt Bean into their planning applications. As a result, those developers benefit from NETRONIC’s long-standing Gantt chart know-how, and from IT2BE’s profound Servoy experience.

Read the full press release.

Servoy has been recognized by IBM as the only development platform in its Cloud Specialty Program — a small select list of very promising technologies.

IBM’s SmartCloud Enterprise is the company’s Cloud computing offering. SmartCloud Enterprise is not only a comprehensive offering, it is also very affordable. Starting at just $0.10/hour, you have access to a powerful Servoy server to run your Servoy Smart Client and Web-Client applications. The combination of Servoy and IBM gives you a complete PaaS (Platform As a Service). No need to purchase, install, configure or maintain servers anymore — just pay as you go.

IBM has teamed up with Servoy to make the experience for Servoy customers a seamless one — an offering that enables anyone to power up fully-configured Servoy servers in minutes.
Attend the FREE “IBM SmartCloud Enterprise and Servoy” Webinar on July 26th, 2 PM EST, 11 AM PST, 20.00 Central European Time, to see a live demo where both IBM and Servoy present this new offering.

Register for this webinar.

On July 28th, Servoy is going to launch the next major version — Servoy 6. This much anticipated version brings hundreds of new features and improvements to Servoy. To celebrate, Servoy will be hosting an informal ad-hoc launch party at Servoy HQ with some beers and a BBQ. Attend for free and get your copy of Servoy 6 on a limited-edition USB drive!

RSVP for this special event.

Join Servoy at the launch meeting of the first official L.A. Servoy user group, hosted at the same location as the monthly LAFox.org user group meetings near LAX.

Special guest speaker Ken Levy (president of MashupX, LLC) will do demos on getting started using the new Servoy 6 with the latest Servoy demos — including: installing Servoy on Mac or Windows; touring around the installation directories and IDE in Eclipse; getting started tips; coding tips and examples; working with COM DLLs; using various database sources; and under-the-hood of various sample solutions included with Servoy. This meeting will be fun and educational for anyone in the L.A. area interested in or currently using Servoy — either as a new development platform, or as a great additional tool and skill set to compliment Visual FoxPro or other development tools.

If you haven’t attended a meeting on the Introduction to Servoy, and haven’t viewed an online webinar on the topic, visit the Servoy Recorded Webinars page to view one or more free videos on demand.

Contact Carla Benassi if you have questions about this event.

Servoy is the Next Generation development and deployment platform for FoxPro ISVs who are looking to develop Cloud, mobile, or on-premise software apps. This special webinar presented by Ken Levy, former product manager for Visual FoxPro at Microsoft, and Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, includes both technical and business scenarios showing how Servoy is the logical evolution for Visual FoxPro ISVs and developers.

An introduction and overview of Servoy will be followed by demos of how Servoy can be used side-by-side existing Visual FoxPro applications, features in Servoy common to Visual FoxPro, functionality in Servoy going well beyond Visual FoxPro, and concluding with an interactive Q&A.

Read more information on Servoy for Visual FoxPro ISVs.

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Servoy is a proud sponsor and exhibitor at FOSE Show in Washington D.C. This conference serves the federal, state and local government technology market, as well as the broader international and commercial technology community — as a forum for bridging ideas and innovations between the public and private sector — and provides a forward-looking view of upcoming federal IT initiatives that impact the private sector.

The choice for Government IT education has always been clear. For 35 years, FOSE has always been the “IT” show — featuring an executive level conference, free opportunities for advancing professional development and an exciting EXPO floor that showcases a playground of effective, actionable IT solutions. Join the 10,000+ who rely on FOSE each year for help in exploring what’s next in the Government IT landscape.

Find out more info on FOSE Show and meet us there.

This month’s newsletter features another Servoy Success Story: MS Health Software.

MS Health Software is a provider of behavioral healthcare and social services management solutions. They developed and marketed a LAN application based on VFP, but as time progressed, the company recognized that Visual FoxPro was perceived as old technology; and lacked needed features such as data integrity, security, and database server standardization. They needed to update the functionality of the product, make it available to run over the Internet, and offer the application in a hosted environment as well. Rumors of Visual FoxPro’s demise pushed MS Health Software to search for the next successful platform.

“As a small ISV, the most important measure of development tools to us is productivity. Servoy is the only development environment we found that offers the leverage we were used to in VFP.” Michael Sedita, CEO MS Health Software

Read the full Servoy MS Health Software Success Story.

Ken Levy, former Visual FoxPro Product Manager, and Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, will host this comprehensive one-hour webinar — including a demonstration and discussion on using Servoy with existing Visual FoxPro applications, and Servoy for FoxPro developers.

Many Visual FoxPro developers who have learned to develop with Servoy, have found Servoy’s development platform easy, powerful, and beneficial; as well as appreciate Servoy’s dynamic programming features and rich data model functionality. This demo-centric one-hour session includes a wide variety of technical areas of Servoy — from data-centric development to using VFP COM based DLLs within Servoy. In the webinar, Mr. Aleman and Mr. Levy will also discuss ideas; answer questions; and share knowledge on both technical and business scenarios offered to VFP developers evaluating Servoy.

Register for this webinar.

Visit our “Servoy for VFP developers” page for additional information.