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ANN: eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter 2.0.2
by eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENT mxODBC Zope Database Adapter Version 2.0.2 for Zope and the Plone CMS Available for Zope 2.10 and later on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mxODBC-Zope-DA-2.0.2-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The eGenix mxODBC Zope Database Adapter allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture. The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms. This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority, establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone CMS. Product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS We are pleased to announce a new version 2.0.2 of our mxODBC Zope DA product. With the patch level 2.0.2 release we have updated the integrated mxODBC Python Extension to the latest 3.1.1 release, which includes a number of important workarounds for these ODBC drivers: * Oracle 10gR1 and 10gR2 * Oracle 11gR1 and 11gR2 * Teradata 13 * Netezza Due to popular demand, we have also added instructions on how to install mxODBC Zope DA 2.0 with Plone 4.1 and Zope 2.13 - even though this combination is not officially supported by the mxODBC Zope DA 2.0 series: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Installation ________________________________________________________________________ UPGRADING Licenses purchased for version 2.0.x of the mxODBC Zope DA will continue to work with the 2.0.2 patch level release. Licenses purchased for version 1.0.x of the mxODBC Zope DA will not work with version 2.0. More information about available licenses is available on the product page: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/#Licensing Compared to the popular mxODBC Zope DA 1.0, version 2.0 offers these enhancements: * Includes mxODBC 3.1 with updated support for many current ODBC drivers, giving you more portability and features for a wider range of database backends. * Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support. * Plone 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 support. Plone 4.1 works as well. * Zope 2.10, 2.11, 2.12 support. Zope 2.13 works as well. * Python 2.4 - 2.6 support. * Zero maintenance support to automatically reconnect the Zope connection after a network or database problem. * More flexible Unicode support with options to work with pure Unicode, plain strings or mixed setups - even for databases that don't support Unicode * Automatic and transparent text encoding and decoding * More flexible date/time support including options to work with Python datetime objects, mxDateTime, strings or tuples * New decimal support to have the Zope DA return decimal column values using Python's decimal objects. * Fully eggified to simplify easy_install and zc.buildout based installation ________________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION For more information on the mxODBC Zope Database Adapter, licensing and download instructions, please visit our web-site: http://www.egenix.com/products/zope/mxODBCZopeDA/ You can buy mxODBC Zope DA licenses online from the eGenix.com shop at: http://shop.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ Thank you, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Feb 09 2012) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/

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Announcement: 2012 Zope Foundation Board Elections and General Meeting
by Tres Seaver 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (Apologies in advance for the cross-post: we need this to reach the whole Zope community). The Zope Foundation board is pleased to announce the regular 2012 general meeting of the foundation will be held on Friday, 16 March 2012, at 15:00 UTC. The meeting will be conducted via IRC at the following channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zope-foundation Prior to that meeting, the current board will conduct an elections in which foundation members will select seven (7) board members in accordance with the foundation bylaws[1]. Summary - ------- - - Nominations open via the foundation(a)zope.org mailing list until Friday, 2012-02-10. - - Voting via e-mail to a closed mailing list, from Wednesday, 2012-02-15 through Friday, 2012-03-02. - - Votes tallied by representatives of the current board, using "Meek and Warrent STV" method using OpenSTV software. - - General meeting and seating of the new board, Friday, 2012-03-16. Procedure for Elections - ----------------------- The procedure for the elections is as follows: - - Foundation members may nominate any member by responding to the board's announcment on the foundation(a)zope.org maling list. Nominations will remain open until Friday, 2012-02-10, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of the nominations period, the board will create a new mailman list, 'zf-elections-2012', and approve all ZF members to post to the list. In order to preserve anonymity of votes, foundation members will not be subscribers to the list; access to the list archives will be restricted to the "tellers" appointed by the board. - - On Wednesday, 2012-02-15, the Secretary will send an e-mail announcing the opening of the voting period. This email will contain the ballot, with careful instructions about how to rank preferences in the reply. The Reply-to header of this e-mail will be set to the 'zf-elections-2012' list. - - ZF members will vote by replying to that e-mail. Voting will remain open until Friday, 2012-03-02, 23:00 UTC. - - At the close of voting, the board will appoint two of its members as "tellers." The tellers will use the list archive to tabulate the members' votes, using the OpenSTV application[2] configured to use the Meek and Warren STV method[3]. The tellers will report the election results, along with the raw tallies, at a special board meeting to be held on Tuesday, 2012-03-13, 15:00 UTC. - - After canvassing the results from the tellers, the board will notify all nominees of the success / failure of their candidacy, thanking them for their willingness to serve. - - At the general meeting, the last item on the agenda will the announcement of the election results, including a vote to "seat" the board. An online version of this announcement is available at: http://foundation.zope.org/news/2012_election_and_general_meeting References - ---------- [1] http://foundation.zope.org/bylaws/zope_foundation_bylaws.pdf [2] http://stv.sourceforge.net/aboutopenstv [3] http://stv.sourceforge.net/votingmethods/meek Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tseaver(a)palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8psnAACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6l+ACglK1iWt6eq0z52Zojiq9n0id2 weoAnRs57WAoLtDLqyaBM/YdzkEMQ5Bv =1oDS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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