Well, the PL/B Brainbuild™ concept was started a couple of years ago to advance the PL/B language and provide tools to help us in the PL/B and Databus communities share tips, tricks, and ideas. The core concept hasn’t changed, but the technology we can use to deliver content has. Now, streaming media is becoming the de facto standard for online training and presentation. Bandwidth is king.

So, I guess now the cat is out of the bag. We are looking to create some online multimedia tools for training and presentation. Some of these multimedia presentations may be quite long (greater than 15 minutes), and we just wouldn’t be able to support the bandwidth and disk space requirements with our old infrastructure.



So, we made a decision to move the web site to a host with a bigger backbone, more staff, and a 24x7x365 support plan. But, the drawback is that we couldn’t find any reasonably priced plans from hosts that were willing to support our .NET-based web site. (Wonder what that says about the .NET platform as a whole?!) So, we went the open-source route, which means we had to copy the existing content into a new database and front-end management tool.

So, this is the end result. We hope you’ll like it, and appreciate some of the new features we’ll be adding in the coming months.