[Seaside] [ANN] GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2007

[Avi Bryant]

Can you clarify the Max Server Processes limitation?  Is this about
how many Smalltalk clients can connect to the server, or does it also
apply to web clients?

Avi

On 5/1/07, Monty Williams <monty.williams at gemstone.com> wrote:
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> Here's the announcement made at the GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions
> 2007. I added GemStone specific terminology in parentheses to make it
> clearer to those of you already using GemStone. It was a great BOF, wish you
> all could have been there.
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> -- Monty
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> Seaside under GLASS
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> Introducing a powerful new way to deploy desktop-like web applications --
> GLASS: GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, Smalltalk.
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> You may already be familiar with the advantages Seaside has over Ruby on
> Rails. But you may be concerned that Seaside lacks native persistence or
> won't scale.
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> By running your Seaside application in GemStone, you'll gain a Smalltalk
> based Application Server and OODB that:
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> Provides fully transparent persistence that doesn't require
> Object-Relational Mapping
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> Scales to over a hundred billion objects and thousands of simultaneous
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> Supports fully ACID transactions to handle concurrency conflicts
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> Handles up to 150 HTTP requests per second
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> Directly loads Monticello packages into a GemStone VM
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> GemStone/S is proven technology currently deployed in numerous global 2000
> companies in the financial, container shipping, manufacturing, and utilities
> sectors.
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> Here is a comparison of several 64-bit editions of GemStone/S that will be
> available in Q3 of 2007:
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> GemStone/S Web Edition
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> GemStone/S LE
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> GemStone/S
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> Price
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> Free!
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> $7000/year
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> Call
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> Number of objects
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> 64 million
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> 256 million
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> 138 billion
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> CPUs Used
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> 1
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> 2
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> unlimited
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> Max RAM
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> 1 GB
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> 2 GB
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> 32768 GB
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> Max Disk (Repository Size)
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> 4 GB
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> 64 GB
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> 8192 TeraBytes
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> Max Server Processes (Concurrent Sessions)
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> 2
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> 10
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> 10,000
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> Clustered Servers
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> no
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> no
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> yes
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> Linux
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> yes
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> yes
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> yes
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> Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
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> no
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> no
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> yes
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> VisualWorks Clients
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> no
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> yes
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> yes
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> VA Smalltalk Clients
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> no
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> yes
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> yes
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> Web Clients
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> yes
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> yes
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> yes
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> Squeak Tools
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> yes
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> yes
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> yes
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> Support
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> Community
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> 20 hours/year
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> Std 9x5 or or 24x7
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> Other configurations between GemStone/S LE and the full version of
> GemStone/S are available through subscription or perpetual licenses. Contact
> sales at gemstone.com for inquiries.
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