Information Capital (InfoCap) has added Ladybridge Systems
' OpenQM
to the databases compatible with its 4GL, fourth-tier WTK application development tool.
OpenQM
is a leader in the multidimensional database market. It is continuously upgraded with features such as object-oriented programming, a paradigm that uses the attributes and behaviors encapsulating an entity, together with their interactions, to design applications and computer programs.
In a joint, year-long effort with Ladybridge
, InfoCap technicians and programmers in Illinois, New York, Arkansas, and Texas worked to perfect a design methodology for seamlessly converting over one hundred thousand programs from the WTK Web Toolkit to run on the OpenQM
platform.
The OpenQM
- WTK combination enables Information Capital companies to provide their clients the enhanced productivity made possible by the rapid evolution of mobile broadband and inexpensive netbooks and handsets.
Ladybridge Systems was founded in 1992 by former Prime Computer personnel and is headquartered in Hardingstone, Northampton, England. To date, Ladybridge Systems provides training, consultancy, development, and maintenance services to MultiValue databases in the UK and worldwide. While the OpenQM MultiValue database is their primary area of activity, they are an IBM business partner providing services to users of IBM's UniVerse and UniData products.
Ladybridge Systems remains a small privately owned company, offering a personal level of service to clients around the world. As a member of the TRUST Group, a network of independent computer companies working together, they are able to offer the vast range resources of a large company while still maintaining the direct, friendly approach of a small business. This also allows Ladybridge Systems to operate with very low overhead and offer high-value services to organizations at much lower charges.
OpenQM is a high performance multivalue database environment with a
low price tag and close compatibility with other products.
Available for Windows, Linux, Mac, AIX and PDA, a commercial QM
licence includes the AccuTerm terminal emulator at no extra cost.
The QMClient API allows development of VB, C and web front ends.
OpenQM is the only multivalue database available both as a fully
supported commercial product and in open source form under the
General Public Licence.