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.

Please join Sean Devlin, Servoy Senior Technical Engineer, who will discuss in this informative, one-hour webinar what is new in the world of Servoy Frameworks. Servoy has been developing a second generation suite of frameworks to enhance developer productivity and help to build more robust applications.

At the forefront of Servoy’s next generation of frameworks is security and multi-tenancy. Every application requires different levels of security and the ability to control users, groups, passwords, privileges etc. And most ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) will require a multi-tenant application when they adopt a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering. For these reasons, Servoy has been developing a Security Framework that relies on best practices to deliver functionality common to most applications and helps developers to get it right the FIRST time.

Register now for this Servoy Special Webinar.

Servoy and the FoxPro User Group Switzerland have organized a Servoy introductory workshop presented live by Ken Levy — in Zurich, Switzerland, on July 8. Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Ken Levy and hear for yourself how Servoy can enhance your Visual FoxPro applications; as well as increase the value of consulting and your solutions.

To register, either send an email to Geert Houben at ghouben@servoy.com or ghouben@servoy.com or visit the event website.

Servoy will host a seminar presented live by Ken Levy on July 5 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Ken Levy, active for years as the Product Manager of Visual FoxPro (VSP) and still a prominent specialist in his field, is a familiar name in the Visual FoxPro world.

This seminar, strategic and technical in nature, is a not-to-miss event for those developers, corporate management and ISVs that use Visual FoxPro.

To register for the Servoy Seminar, please send an email to Rutger de Jong at rdejong@servoy.com

The July newsletter has been sent.

The list of topics for this month includes:

- eWEEK Names Servoy 5.2 Open Source ‘Product to Watch’
- Cloud Computing Journal - Jan Aleman on ‘Hybrid Cloud: The Green Future’
- From the Servoy Labs: SaaS Frameworks Launch - July 15
- Servoy Special Webinar: Team Sharing in Servoy - Sept 9
- ServoyForge: The Open Source Software Portal for Servoy-related OSS Projects
- Ken Levy in The Netherlands - Servoy Seminar July 5
- Ken Levy with Visual FoxPro Developers in Switzerland - Servoy Workshop July 8
- Servoy Keynote at SaaS University Conference: Washington D.C. - July 20-22

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This month’s newsletter features another Servoy Success Story: Keeneight Srl. Keeneight specializes in the creation of software engineering that supports the entire life-cycle of the product, from concept design to after-sales assistance for the automotive, aerospace, and appliance markets (the software can also be easily adapted to other manufacturing companies as well).

“Servoy immediately proved to us to be the perfect development and deployment tool because it met our three basic requirements of integration, flexibility and durability. The result of switching to the Servoy development and deployment platform is modular software that is able to integrate and expose data, with all the features needed to manage a product structure during its life cycle. Thanks to the great graphical interface framework of Servoy, we can leverage the user experience with a high level of collaboration features and an easy customization, to always offer what is really needed.

Read the full Keeneight Success Story.

We have updated the Servoy AMI on the Amazon Elastic Cloud to Servoy 5.1. With Amazon’s Elastic Cloud you can instantly host Servoy applications at a low cost. All you need to do is log-in and fire up a Servoy app server. With one click, Servoy apps can then be put into production. It’s really that easy!

To launch an instance of the AMI:

• log into your AWS Console and select AMIs.
• Search in public AMIs for AMI ID = ami-2fc82146
• Right-click the image and launch it.

eWEEK, the industry leader for strategic technology information, recently selected Servoy 5.2 Open Source as a “Product to Watch” in the June issue of its award-winning print magazine.

Each month, the editors of eWEEK recognize enterprise-class products that they think should be on the radar of every IT professional. The products are selected on the basis of their potential for creating efficiency as well as competitive advantage in a market where companies need to stay a step ahead of their competitors.

This is the second time Servoy has been recognized for this honor. To read the full press release, click here.

European Web platform company, Servoy, announced that it will release its core libraries under the Affero General Public License (AGPL). Those libraries provide Java functions in a JavaScript-accessible Web layer.

Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy, said his company’s Web platform mixes the best of both worlds. “We’ve found a good mix of not being too runtime-oriented and not being too build-oriented. We don’t generate Java code. Servoy uses a library of native Java code that has already been built maps against those classes,” he said.

Click here to read the full SD Times article.