Servoy, a leader in hybrid platform development, is teaming with PINS, a leading provider in delivering online business solutions to SMBs, including web hosting, application hosting and Software as a Service (SaaS) to provide a combined Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering.

The PaaS offering is a single stack that covers the full line of technology that any ISV needs to publish products as SaaS. The stack covers everything from development to infrastructure and allows ISVs to greatly reduce complexity of their SaaS environments.

PINS manages the infrastructure part of the offering – the core of this combined cloud computing offering. ISVs can also successfully offer their SaaS applications by using PINS HyperGrid™. PINS HyperGrid™, based on VMware, is a hosting platform in the real meaning of the term ‘on demand’. It meets the highest demands that are made these days with regard to availability, connectivity, security and scalable infrastructure. Customers of PINS are amongst others Alfa Romeo, Coca-Cola, Corus and Fitness First.

To read the full press release, please click here.

Since 1988, Softwear has supplied automated systems for the wholesale and retail trade in fashion, sports and footwear industries — from lingerie to jeans to tennis shoes, covering everything from the initial studio to final checkout. Hundreds of wholesalers, as well as franchise and smaller independent retailers, now work with the Softwear Package, consisting of several modules that provide each store, importer or wholesaler with a customizable solution. Softwear’s solutions, reflected in its products and services, are innovative and easy-to-use.

Download the Servoy Softwear Success Story in PDF format.

The program for OCLC’s first Regional Council Meeting in Europe, Middle East and Africa has been announced.

In the Opening Session entitled “Cloud Computing, what is it and what are its impacts for libraries”, the Keynote will be given by Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy and a distinguished global thought leader on Cloud Computing. As secretary of EuroCloud (www.eurocloud.org), he has been a disruptive technology visionary at the forefront of the cloud revolution in computing. He is also a published author and commentator as well as guest and keynote speaker at many conferences worldwide. The meeting opens on 24 February 2010 in Leiden, Netherlands and takes place over two days.

To read the press release in its entirety, please go to: http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/news/releases/2010/2010.htm

Computerworld features an interview with Jan Aleman, CEO Servoy in today’s online edition on software licensing. A select quote: “One way to avoid the shelfware problem is to opt for software as a service,” says Jan Aleman, CEO of IDE vendor Servoy.

To read more, please click here: http://tinyurl.com/ydsgz24

New Servoy Success Story posted - Digital Strata, Inc.

Founded in 1994, Digital Strata is a software and services company that specializes in developing products that ease the burden and complexity of intricate legal processes. Legal teams, law firms, businesses, and third-party legal service providers use Digital Strata applications to help them manage these processes efficiently and accurately.

“The FileMaker development platform posed high cost of entry issues since the solution needed to be on-site. Using Servoy, we overcame the challenges of difficult web implementation, hard to deploy upgrades and updates, as well as a non standards-based solution platform.”
– Dan Fischler, CEO Digital Strata, Inc.

You can read the entire article here: http://tinyurl.com/yef2cdp

Servoy today announced the fifth generation of its award-winning hybrid SaaS platform, Servoy 5.0 — the platform that simplifies SaaS. Servoy 5.0 further extends the functionality of Servoy’s development and deployment platform, allowing “SaaS and Back” hybrid applications — which can be deployed as SaaS and on-premises through both a browser and a native client — all from a single code base.

To read more, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yjd3rs9

Software Magazine published a new product announcement on Servoy 5.0. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Servoy 5.0 from Servoy allows for the development of “SaaS and Back” hybrid applications, all from a single code base. The hybrid applications can be deployed as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-premises through a browser and a native client.”

Software Magazine is the leading IT software journal focused on pointing CIOs, IT managers, IT staff and surrounding professionals to the product and service options available to help them address their business challenges.

To read the article in its entirety, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/yfc6u6u

Java or .Net? And which one is the most productive choice? The million dollar question …

In this webinar for software vendors we will compare and contrast both options with Servoy, with main focus on .Net. These are some of the questions we will focus on:

• Do you need two code-bases for SaaS and On-Premises?
• Do you need multiple code-bases for Windows/Mac/Linux deployment?
• Are you doing code tweaks for cross-browser deployment?
• Do you have to rewrite for different SQL databases?
• Do your competitors have Sexier GUI’s?
• Is productivity keeping you awake at night?

Join our free webinar to see for yourself that with Servoy your productivity will triple and so will your competitive advantage. Join us for this Special Webinar on Thursday, September 24 at 10am PT/1pm ET.

Sign up here: ISV WEBINAR

Also, check out our .Net landing page with more info on why .NET Developers like Servoy.

David Strom, aka “The Strominator” for Baseline magazine (an Enterprise publication at Ziff Davis) has done a video review of Servoy 4.0

You can see his full review here: http://blip.tv/file/1191843/

David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. For several years David  wrote weekly opinion columns on eCommerce for IDG and networking columns in Infoworld and PC Week.

He is the author of two books: Internet Messaging (Prentice Hall, 1998 ) which he co-authored with Marshall T. Rose and Home Networking Survival Guide (McGrawHill/Osborne, 2001).

He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom?s Hardware, EETimes, and many others.

In addition to this impressive collection of journalistic work, he is also a frequent speaker, panel and focus group moderator and instructor at various industry events and trade shows around the world including Interop, CMPs Xchange, and for private clients.

David has been a guest on the Fox TV News Network, NPR, ABC-TV World News Tonight and CBS-TV News.