Jags Ramnarayan is the chief architect for the high-performance, distributed data management product line at GemStone Systems. He puts on multiple hats - evangelizing the technology, exploring requirements with customers, and managing the overall direction of the architecture decisions. In the past Jags participated in several Java and W3C standards for GemStone and BEA. On the side, Jags is also pursuing a MBA degree, but hopes to remain technically focussed.
The client/server development model prevalent in the mid-1990's resulted in extremely easy-to-build rich GUI applications that interacted directly with a relational database. 4GL tools such as Visual Basic and PowerBuilder let even junior developers visually compose both the presentati...Aug. 28, 2006 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 31,639 Replies: 5
