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                              News and Comments

     There is no article this month.  I was hoping to finish an article
about the Ruby programming language, but ran out of time.  If you have any
experience or knowledge about Ruby and/or Rails that you wouldn't mind
sharing, please contact me.
     
     Beta testing of DB/C DX 14.0 started this month.  If all goes well,
we should be able to release it in October.

     Dell recently announced that it was dropping the Intel Itanium chip.
Dell had originally released workstation and server models, then first
dropped the workstations, and now the servers.  While Intel keeps saying
that Itanium acceptance is growing, I don't believe it.  HP is the only
major computer manufacturer now selling Itanium based products, and HP is
a mess.  That's really a shame too because HP had two great other chip
architectures (Alpha and PA-RISC) for which they stopped all development
because of Itanium.  HP and Intel have sunk billions of dollars into the
development of Itanium, so I don't expect them to give up very soon.

     Microsoft recently described a bunch of features planned for C# 3.0.
One group of features is a series of constructs (statements) that are
very SQL-ish.  This is all quite interesting given that C# 2.0 won't be
released into production until next year.  We'll keep watching the .NET
world and report any significant developments.

                                                     don.wills@dbcsoftware.com

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                          DB/C DX Class Schedule

   Class:     DB/C DX Fundamentals
   Date:      November, 2005
   Location:  Woodridge, Illinois

For information, send email to admin@dbcsoftware.com.


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