"We are Committed to the MultiValue Market"
This is the message, delivered and received, in Miami during
the 5th
jBASE
User Conference. Pete Loveless, jBASE International
CEO and Mpower1 Partner in his welcoming keynote, thanked
everyone for their participation without which jBASE's future
would not look so bright and secure. The partnership between
jBASE International and Temenos
(owner/developer of the jBASE database) is stronger than
ever and "strengthening year on year". Temenos' revenues have
grown from $25million to almost $300 million since 1999.
jBASE's revenues have grown 11% fueled by jBASE licenses and
support as well as the suite of add-on products (MV.net
, jRCS, RSDC, DREM, OSMOSIS). The current release of jBASE,
4.1.5 (which will be supported at least through 2012) and the
already-in-the-field release 5 (which will be supported at least
through 2012), in conjunction with these add-ons comprise the
go-forward strategy for jBASE International.
Temenos and jBASE have been working very closely and
feverishly to get release 4.1.5 stable and distributable to the
entire jBASE community. Both organizations have numerous sites
running this release in production. Loveless stated that they
realize that the move to this release is more than just an
upgrade and they appreciate the user base "sticking with us".
This release is the flagship product, is the foundation for all
future releases, and will be supported thru 2012. The 3.4 release
had scalability and maintainability issues. Future upgrades will
be far less painful than the migration from 3.4 to 4.1.5. jBASE
has a project plan to help users with this move.
Temenos is already shipping release 5 with jBASE to follow in
about one year. jBASE's strategy is to stay 1 year behind Temenos
in jBASE releases. Loveless is waiting for release 5 to settle
down in the Temenos user base before releasing it to the rest of
the jBASE community.
As further evidence of the commitment between Temenos and
jBASE to their, and the users, futures, Clive Ketteridge -
Temenos Database Strategy Director and Co-Founder of jBASE and
Martin Bailey - Product Development Manager for jBASE, where
present at the conference and available for discussions
throughout.
Bailey spoke about the development process, how it works
within Temenos, how jBASE International participates and how
releases are tested and released to the field. He also discussed
features of release 5: true 64 bit, recovery modeled after
Oracle, resilient file support (no resize no corruption),
transaction journal checkpointing (for warmstarting and on-line
backups), and startup check. This new release series is being
called jBASE Dataguard.
Users from all over the world attended the conference. The
people I spoke to are encouraged by the stated commitment from
jBASE International and Temenos.