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Hi Everyone,

Happy new year.

Wish you and your family all the best in 2010.

Kevin Gao

Dynamic Web TWAIN is an ActiveX control and optimized for web applications. Dynamic Web TWAIN has been very popular. It is widely used in government, health care, insurance, policing and many other industries.

We are releasing a new TWAIN component, Dynamsoft .NET TWAIN, which is developed in C# and uses managed code. We are doing the release test of Dynamsoft .NET TWAIN and expecting to release it in the coming months.

Stay tuned.

At last, Silverlight 3 is on the way. We are developing an application with Silverlight 2. Silverlight 2 is not a stable product and we found many issues. Hopefully, Silverlight 3 will be better.

After more than 1 year hard work, today, I am very pleased to announce that we are releasing SCM Anywhere Hosted, the world’s 1st Hosted SCM solution.

The home page of SCM Anywhere Hosted is:
http://www.scmsoftwareconfigurationmanagement.com/Products/Software-Configuration-Management-SCM-Hosting.aspx

You can check out the 10-minute introduction video:

So why SCM Anywhere is the World’s 1st Hosted SCM solution? Because SCM Anywhere is specifically designed to be a SaaS/hosted application from the beginning and no any other SCM solution is born so. More details:

1. Multi-tenant architecture
As the architect of SCM Anywhere (which is a SaaS application) I am fully aware of the differences between the single-instance architecture and the multi-tenant architecture. SCM Anywhere uses multi-tenant architecture to ensure maximized concurrency and efficient use of computing resources.

2. Separate database
SCM Anywhere uses separate database for each tenant to ensure high data isolation.

3. Scale-Out architecture
SCM Anywhere is designed with hosting hundreds of thousands of users in mind. Scale-out architecture is used to ensure high scalability. The whole deployment of SCM Anywhere consists of dispatch servers and many deployment units. Each deployment unit consists of SCM Anywhere service and SQL Server service. The dispatch server dispatches the client requests to different deployment unit according to business logic. The initial deployment is one single deployment unit. As the workload grows, we can add more deployment units accordingly.

4. Sessionless server
I make the server sessionless so we can easily use load balance to scale the service and achieve high availability.

5. Tight security
SCM Anywhere uses many technologies to achieve highest security possible. For more information, please refer to:
http://www.dynamsoft.com/Documents/Secure_your_source_code_and_digital_assets.pdf

6. Built-in customer sign up and billing system

Microsoft Released the full version of SilverLight 2. This is the promotional picture from Microsoft web site:

I know several of my friends are using Adobe Flex to develop RIA. But with Silverlight, developers can use .NET. I am personally familiar with Microsoft technologies and Silverlight looks promising to me.

To see what Silverlight can do, please visit this page: http://silverlight.net/Showcase/

Today I got an email from Microsoft MSDN Flash with the news that Microsoft just released Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0.

For those who do not know about Silverlight, Silverlight is a Microsoft tool to build a RIA (Rich Internet Application).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application

Much to Microsoft’s dismay, even though Microsoft launched massive marketing campaigns to promote Silverlight, it seems development teams like Adobe AIR and FLEX better.

For what’s new in Silverlight 2, please refer to:
http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/overview.aspx