Python for Series 60

Nokia has announced a Python for Series 60.

Python for Series 60 brings the Python programming language to the Series 60 Platform. With Python for Series 60 installed, developers can write Series 60 applications in Python, or embed the Python interpreter into Symbian C++ applications for the platform.

Personally, I don’t like Nokia mobile phones. Their price is completely unjustified – it’s too hight! But if Nokia would release Perl instead of Python I’d like Nokia smartphones I think 😉

Native XML DBMS

Sedna XML DBMS is a native full-featured data management system.

§ Support for the W3C XQuery language
§ Support for a declarative update language
§ Native XML data storage structures designed for efficient support for both
queries and updates (no underlying relational or another DBMS). The XML data
storage is based on descriptive schema (also called DataGuide)
§ Efficient support for stand-alone XML documents with arbitrary structures and collections of XML documents with similar structures
§ Java API, Scheme API and C API for application development
§ Open client/server protocol over sockets that allows implementing APIs for
other programming languages
§ Support for Windows and Linux platforms