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The new prices take immediate effect for new business.
Existing licenses may continue to pay for optional support
under the old terms. The run-time license has caused concern
to some: If, after looking at the pricing options, you
feel that the run-time license is incompatible with your business
model, please contact your Dyalog representative to
negotiate an alternative. It is NOT Dyalogs intention to force
any of our customers to change their business model in order
to adapt to our pricing. See the Dyalog web page for
more information on the new pricing.
Future Direction
The next release will be v11.1, and is scheduled for release
in the 2 nd half of 2007. The defining feature of this release
will be the extension of the character data type to allow the
use of Unicode characters in the same way as existing character
variables. This will not only allow the use of nearly all
of the worlds human languages in APL applications, but
should also go a long way towards solving the remainig practical
problems with the use of APL symbols.
Version 11.0 has almost 200 pages of Release Notes. Apart
from Unicode, v11.1 is likely to have little in the way of visible
language enhancements. We have almost doubled the
size of the language development group in the last 12 months,
and we will be spending time bringing the new recruits up to
speed on the interpreter. The addition of one or two new
datatypes is the perfect opportunity to go through the interpreter
together with the new team and – amongst other
things – apply more modern algorithms to various parts of
the system (we expect to focus on searching and indexing in
particular).
We also have a couple of new products in the pipeline,
which will be sold separately from the language interpreter:
A file server which will deliver component- and native file
services over TCP/IP, and provide higher throughput and
security than is possible when sharing files over a LAN or
WAN – plus tools for writing high performance APL Servers
both within and outside of the Microsoft.Net framework.
In addition to product development, we intend to make a
significant investment in the production of new educational
materials, tutorials and code samples, in 2007 and beyond.
We intend to establish a repository of open-source tools,
hosted on the Dyalog web site.
For more information about our direction, please visit the
Dyalog web page, in particular the Statement of Direction under
About Us, and the collection of presentations and course
materials from the 2006 User Group Meeting, where you
will find a presentation titled Road Map 2006.
Kontakt:
Autor;
Morten Kromberg, mkrom@dyalog.com
14 APL - Journal 2006, 25. Jg., Heft 1/2