Sybase are introducing upgraded products this month that in different ways ratchet up the functionality behind building and housing Internet-based enterprise applications. The product, now in beta testing and shipping June 15, also features a command center for centralized control over the various servers.
Persistence plans to link the console to major management systems in a future release.
The server also supports several of the technologies to be included in the forthcoming Java 2, Enterprise Edition, platform due in June from Sun Microsystems. The server will also be integrated more tightly with leading Web servers Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, and Netscape Enterprise Server. Analysts praised GemStone's certificates-based security features. GemStone is an interesting contrast with Persistence, which is an object-relational mapping solution. If you had an application with very complex logic, that might be better for GemStone's server.