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Close to 300 developers will gather to learn about the latest in Windows Phone application development
Waltham, MA – April 3, 2013 – Telerik, the end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, is announcing today the first-annual Boston Hackathon, taking place April 13-14, held by Telerik and sponsored by Nokia Developer. To register, please go to http://thebostonhackathon.eventbrite.com/.
Telerik and Nokia will welcome developers to the two-day event to learn how to write amazing Windows Phone Apps and compete for great prizes. Sessions will be led by Lance McCarthy, Nokia Ambassador and Telerik XAML Support Specialist. He will guide developers through the new and exciting Windows Phone 8 APIs on day one and host the hackathon on day two. Together, Telerik and Nokia will help attendees achieve new levels in Windows Phone development.
Telerik now offers more than 45+ components, 50+ design templates and a wide range of capabilities to complement the stock UI Toolbox available for Windows Phone Apps. Telerik’s RadControls for Windows Phone enables developers to engage in a meaningful way with end-users, earn more ratings and ultimately achieve better app rankings in the marketplace. Nokia Developer arms developers with tools and resources to bring their app ideas to life.
To join this must-attend event, please register today at http://thebostonhackathon.eventbrite.com/.
About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations. For additional information about Telerik, please visit www.telerik.com or follow @telerik on Twitter.
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I am personally committed to openness and transparency regarding our pricing and licensing. When I announced the new Appcelerator Platform last week, I mentioned that I was going to follow-up to provide you with details about the changes that we are making to our Plans & Pricing. As I’ve said before, we care deeply about providing you with outstanding value and high quality products at competitive prices. This has been our commitment from the day Nolan and I started this company. One of our core company values is to “Enable Customer Success,” and we are honored each and every day to empower you to deliver transformative mobile experiences to the world.
To be clear, Titanium will continue to be free and has no commercial restrictions. For our free “Explore” package, we significantly boosted the monthly allotments of Cloud Services and Analytics recently in order to give the majority of our developers a free “all-you-can-eat” offering for their mobile apps. We created this strategy to better serve the needs of our community, and the feedback we received was extremely positive. Recently, we also posted answers to some of the more common billing and usage questions.
With regards to the Appcelerator Platform, we’re focused on the specific needs of mobile enterprises. As you are well aware, mobile is exploding and disrupting everything. We have seen increasing demands from Mobile First enterprises for specific requirements across the entire mobile application lifecycle as they scale from 10s to 100s of apps (and beyond). The Appcelerator Platform provides a commercial solution for the entire mobile lifecycle, with commercial support, SLAs and technical training. This offering includes Appcelerator Studio, Appcelerator Alloy, Appcelerator Cloud, Appcelerator Test, Appcelerator Analytics, and Appcelerator Performance Management – all under a single, newly branded SaaS offering called the Appcelerator Platform. This solution serves the specific needs of enterprises that require a comprehensive platform for the entire mobile lifecycle - from ideation and design-driven development, to continuous delivery, to experience-driven analytics. We'll also offer enterprise-class flexibility in the delivery of the solution both as a public cloud and virtual private cloud along with varying levels of guaranteed availability (SLAs).
The Appcelerator Platform is powered by Titanium. In other words, we can’t have the Appcelerator Platform without a strong, successful Titanium product and community behind it. We will continue to invest in it, and there will always be a free / open source version of Titanium. This truth is very important to me, so I would appreciate it if you would take the time to read my blog post from last week where I wrote in detail about our commitment to open source.
Appcelerator Platform Pricing
The pricing model we are using with the Appcelerator Platform is designed to be simple, scalable, and value-driven.
What Happens to the Standard, Enhanced and Premium Packages?
With this new platform and pricing model, we’re now also retiring the three packages known as “Standard”, “Enhanced” and “Premium" all of which were licensed by application. If you are one of the commercial customers already on one of these packages, we'll continue to honor your existing subscription until the end of your term. At that point, our corporate sales team will work with you on an upgrade path to the Appcelerator platform.
To be clear, the free “Explore” package with the above-mentioned usage-level increases and existing licensing terms will remain unchanged to allow the continued use and adoption by our developers who are the engine that fuel the mobile revolution.
As mentioned in the ACS billing and usage questions, we'll also provide an upgrade path to the Appcelerator Platform should you outgrow the Explore package.
Thank You!
2013 promises to be another landmark year for all of us – our developers, customers, partners and Appcelerator. We’re excited about the opportunity ahead, and are looking forward to doing some really big things together! Thank you again and let us know your feedback in the comments below. For pricing questions, please contact us here.

Redwood City, Calif. – April 2, 2013 - Actian Corp. (“Actian”), a leader in next generation big data management and creator of the analytic database Vectorwise, today announced that they are partnering with analytics consultancy OpenBI, LLC around its innovative Vectorwise analytic database. OpenBI is professional services firm focused on helping organizations extract maximum value from their growing data assets by utilizing expertise in big data architecture, advanced analytics and best-practice business intelligence system design and deployment. The relationship with Actian will allow OpenBI’s customers to capitalize on Vectorwise’s disruptive combination of high-performance and affordability to drive unprecedented new business value at a fraction of the cost of other leading solutions.
With its ability to analyze and report on large and complex data, Vectorwise is a perfect complement to OpenBI’s big data and analytics service offerings. “Adding Actian Vectorwise to our portfolio of technologies provides strategic benefits to both OpenBI and our customers,” said Steve Miller, co-founder and President of OpenBI. “With Vectorwise, users are able to access information at the speed of thought in order to improve business decisions with real-time data.”
OpenBI sought a high performance analytical database capable of serving business users with rapid-fire analytic queries. To meet these needs, OpenBI turned to Vectorwise because of its consistently-outstanding performance, scalability and low overall cost. Additionally, OpenBI has been able to deploy Vectorwise behind a number of analytical applications with little configuration or preparation. This compatibility with front-end technologies makes it a preferred choice.
edo Interactive, a credit and debit card reward company and OpenBI customer, has already seen the benefits of Vectorwise for its business. “OpenBI knew the market and was able to advise us on the best tools for our problem, which included Actian Vectorwise,” said Tim Garnto, vice president of product engineering at edo Interactive. “Vectorwise is faster than what we’ve seen from other engines and has strong SQL support,” added OpenBI partner Kevin Haas, who worked on the edo project. “With Vectorwise, OpenBI was able to provide the edo Interactive team with rapid access to data along with support for analytic queries that they were unable to experience before.”
“OpenBI continues to expand its expertise in the big data ecosystem and is ready to meet the needs of businesses for both the innovative tools to analyze growing volumes of data and the expert insights to help businesses prosper,” says Fred Gallagher general manager, Vectorwise at Actian Corporation. “We are happy to welcome OpenBI to our roster of BI and analytic partners that support Vectorwise.”
With more than 10,000 customers worldwide, Actian is a leader in helping companies analyze big data in industries ranging from retail, ecommerce, healthcare, manufacturing, finance and social media.
About Actian: Take Action on Big Data
Actian Corporation enables organizations to transform big data into business value with data management solutions to transact, analyze, and take automated action across their business operations. Actian helps 10,000 customers worldwide take action on their big data with Action Apps, Vectorwise the analytic database, Ingres an independent mission-critical OLTP database, and Versant object-oriented databases. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Actian, Action Apps, Ingres, Vectorwise and Versant are trademarks of Actian Corporation. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.
About OpenBI
Headquartered in Chicago, OpenBI is an experienced professional services firm committed to the data-driven enterprise. Our transformative services combine architecture and implementation expertise in big data, advanced analytics and business intelligence. Clients benefit from OpenBI's real-world expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem, analytic databases, BI platforms and statistics/machine learning. The OpenBI team delivers open-architected data integration and BI technology solutions while assisting data scientists with agile intelligence and advanced analytics. OpenBI customers see us as innovative and pragmatic – delivering top-tier intelligence solutions efficiently and economically. For more information, visit www.openbi.com.