Release Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2011
In accordance with the BlueFinity roadmap, the development team at BlueFinity International has released a new version of its flagship product: mv.NET 4.2.3. mv.NET combines the power and flexibility of proven MultiValue technology with the feature-rich Microsoft .NET environment. Its seamless integration with Visual Studio provides a potent rapid application development environment fine-tuned for the MultiValue developer.
The latest release continues the rollout of important enhancements designed to provide the MultiValue community with increased longevity by enabling an even greater range of choice in the development of dynamic, enterprise class, MultiValue-based user interfaces and applications.
"Today's increasingly competitive market makes it crucial for resellers and developers of MultiValue applications to keep up with rapidly evolving end user expectation and demand," explains BlueFinity's CEO, Pete Loveless. "End user clients who have invested extensive time and money into their trusted MultiValue business applications don't want to turn away from their investment in order to get the modern look and feel they require. And proposing a migration to a completely new solution increases the risk that they might look at your competitors if they feel they are at the point of reinventing the wheel. mv.NET allows the MultiValue reseller to modernize their existing applications quickly, cost effectively, and with significantly less risk. They can deliver a modern, sophisticated look and feel to their existing customers while keeping all of the functionality and features of their proven solution. New accounts can be approached with an application that provides a stylish, modern GUI interface and a solid, proven, MultiValue back end that rivals the competition in terms of features, functions, performance, stability and efficiency."
mv.NET enables developers to quickly and easily create a highly cohesive business layer which is made up of .NET code modules in either C# or VB.NET allowing non-MultiValue developers to access and utilize the platform in ways which they find familiar and comfortable. This allows developers to focus on the task of creating line-of-business solutions and not on the database 'plumbing' at the back end.
The business layer is built upon all of the rich features of the existing business logic and MultiValue DataBASIC code. All entities can, when required, interact with this business functionality, giving a controlled and consistent business logic implementation. This results in much faster, more effective application development and reduced on-going support costs, especially when combined with the RAD tooling that mv.NET provides for the rapid creation of menus and forms.
Since the business layer presents MultiValue data in a generic, widely consumable manner, it allows the full range of today's vibrant 3rd party tools to be used to deliver cutting-edge, visually compelling GUI interfaces to MultiValue-based applications.
mv.NET also allows for a phased development approach, reducing the risk of downtime. Roll out can be based upon the customers' ability to absorb the enhanced application rather than the schedule being dictated solely by having a fully functional GUI equivalent.
"The times of building it all yourself are gone for good," states Loveless. "A new pattern of using best of breed tools and services has emerged to allow sophisticated software to be created in acceptable timescales and budgets. It is in recognition of this reality that BlueFinity continues to lead the market in its provision of MultiValue centric tools for the most widely used and serviced application development environment on the planet - Microsoft .NET. And, in doing so, allowing MultiValue-based resellers and end users to utilize both the immense range of application development tools and the huge pool of .NET aware application developers in order to meet the significant challenges of this rapidly evolving application software development landscape."
About BlueFinity International
BlueFinity International, part of the Mpower1 group of companies, supplies leading-edge software development tools and consultancy services to the MultiValue database and Microsoft developer communities. Founded in 2002, BlueFinity has created a series of products. Its flagship product - mv.NET - is a comprehensive solution for developers wishing to access MultiValue databases from within Microsoft's .NET environment.
For more information, visit http://www.bluefinity.com/
About D3
The D3 DBMS embodies the best and most desired features for developers and users. It is simple in its structure but allows for complex definitions of data structures and program logic. The built-in development environment allows applications to be rapidly prototyped, developed, and modified on the spot. Custom applications and on-site enhancements are common in the D3 community. Everything required for development is already in D3, making D3 much more than a typical database environment. Site administration requires a fraction of the staff of other environments of the same size - a large proportion of sites running D3 do not have an IT staff.
D3 is developed and supported over the many environments indicated on these pages. All code and data easily migrates between environments without modification, so both developers and users can work on their platforms of choice.
Other products from TigerLogic include connectivity tools like FlashCONNECT for web, the D3 Class Libraries, the Open Systems File Interface for Oracle and other environments, and XML technologies to exchange data with other XML-compliant programs or environments.
For more information, visit http://www.rainingdata.com/products/dbms/d3/index.html
About OpenQM
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.
For more information, visit http://www.openqm.com
About UniData
Secure and Available 24 X 7
Tuned for business
The current economic climate demands more from your technology than ever before. While easy-to-use, high-performance solutions have always offered a faster return on investment, they may be a matter of survival today. And for businesses prepared to take advantage of changing times to position themselves for the future, they offer a competitive advantage.
UniData(r) comes into its own at times like these, delivering the capabilities you need to develop, enhance and deploy comprehensive business applications rapidly and with minimal cost.
UniData is an extended relational database ideal for embedding in vertical solutions. It allows multiple nested tables within a table, while maintaining support for ANSI SQL access. Data modeling is more intuitive and fewer tables are created compared with a traditional relational database.
Using UniData, developers can create solutions quickly and easily for a wide variety of markets. The product's real-world approach to application development and deployment minimizes time to market, which in turn saves you money and helps you compete more effectively.
Highlights
- Delivers low TCO and exceptional scalability to meet the challenges of on demand business in the SMB and large enterprise market
- Provides intuitive design and high-performance queries using extended relational data model
- Enables use of standard protocols including ODBC, OLEDB, ADO.NET, JDBC, XML and SOAP
- Supports security and robustness via encryption, authentication and high availability features
- Features native, high performance interfaces for .NET, Java(tm) and more
- Leverages application investment with flexible data storage
For more information, visit http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/
About UniVerse
Reliable and Flexible Foundation for Business Solutions
Successful businesses continually push themselves to find ways to maximize their effectiveness and reduce costs. UniVerse maximizes return on investment and is built to keep costs low, delivering uncompromising reliability and power with the features that successful businesses need.
UniVerse offers a unique combination of an intuitive development environment and a powerful, reliable data engine. It is easy to embed in an application and delivers high-performance and high scalability in a small footprint. On top of that, it's very easy to use and administer.
Based on technology newer than the relational model, UniVerse uses XML-like data structures resulting in fewer tables, fewer joins and better performance.
Highlights
- Provides intuitive database design and high performance data access
- Secures data through encryption and authentication
- Ensures high availability through data replication
- Enables access via a variety of APIs, protocols, frameworks and architectures
- Provides flexible data storage choices for maximum interoperability
- Accelerates time to market and lowers TCO for business solutions
For more information, visit http://www.rocketsoftware.com/u2/
About jBase
A multidimensional database, a development environment including a
development language, and a middleware component allowing other
mainstream and standards-based products to communicate with the jBASE
products. The unique jEDI middleware enables access to other databases
such as Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server. Microsoft Windows, all major Unix
platforms including Linux, and IBM's e-Servers are supported.
For more information, visit http://www.jbase.com/products/jbase.html
About mv*Base
mv*Base for Windows is the database environment that offers the easiest high-performance path for MultiValue database developers and users to move their applications into a Windows Client/Server environment.
mv*Base is a multivalue-compliant Windows database environment which makes the migration of multivalue applications to a Windows client/server environment fast and easy. mv*Base offers a high-performance multi-dimensional database engine including such features as multi-valued field and unlimited item size providing maximum flexibility for data organization. B-tree indexing provides enhanced performance for sorting and selecting data from BASIC applications.
For more information, visit http://www.rainingdata.com/products/dbms/mvb/index.html
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