Gideon Low is senior technical architect for GemStone Systems. He has over 10 years of experience in the development, management, and sales of high-performance large-scale distributed systems. His focus over the last seven years has been in high-speed electronic trading systems, with roles including CTO at Silicon Summit Technologies (A FIX/OMS vendor) and VP, Client Connectivity Technology at Lehman Brothers.
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: 31,631 Replies: 5
