[These are notes from a session at 4D Summit 2008]
Presenter: Sergiy Temnikov, 4D SAS
It’s important to realize that the SQL engine is not “on top of” DB4D, it’s fused into it. There’s definitely no penalty for using SQL.
v11.3 is a lot more than a dot release - there are a bunch of huge improvements to [...]

[These are notes from a session 4D Summit 2008.]
Presenters: Laurent Ribardiere, Laurent Esnault, Olivier Deschanels, 4D SAS

Laurent Ribardiere
What’s changed since last year’s Summit…
LR wanted to start by clarifying something about blob and text storage outside the record. There are times when it’s a negative since when you have to search that field it’s something like [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008]
Presenter: Tim Kaufman, 4D Inc.
One of the problems with Flash was that the development environment felt alien to programmers. Flex fixes that - it provides an IDE which feels natural to developers, but compiles down to .swf files. Flash Player 9 is required to run Flex because it uses [...]

[These are notes from 4D Summit 2008 - pictures to follow later.]
Presenter: Tom Fitch, 4D Inc.
Demoed a database with interactive SVG areas. Click on an area on the graphic (a seating chart for an arena) and it maps it to the appropriate data elements and lets you take action on that element (buying a ticket [...]

[Notes from 4D Summit 2008.]
Christophe Keromen, Senior Product Manager, 4D SAS
To meet changing demands 4D will be focusing more on RIAs.
They’ll also focus on collaborative development.
The infrastructure is changing as well… Wi-Fi, mobile computing, etc… The Ajax framework is important there as well.
4D will target 64-bit
Require fewer resources, and focus on mobile friendly technologies
They understand [...]