APT Solutions , the primary distributor of IBM's UniVerse and UniData (U2) Databases in the United Kingdom has expanded its partnership with Entrinsik to distribute Informer Web Reporting Software in the UK and Ireland.  APT is essentially expanding its already successful VAR relationship with Entrinsik as it has been selling an integrated version of Entrinsik 's Informer Web Reporting Software with its own popular enterprise software for the not-for-profit industry.

"We began offering Informer to our customer base a few months ago with excellent customer acceptance" said George Land, APT 's Chairman and Business Development Director. "We have determined from our customers' reactions and from our own evaluation that Informer is the superior reporting tool for U2 Databases.  Now with our expanded U2 distribution role with IBM , Informer became the obvious choice to be our recommendation of a Web reporting complement for our U2 customers."

As distributor for IBM in the United Kingdom and Ireland, APT Solutions is uniquely positioned to offer services to the growing U2 industry in the area, and to serve as the primary software solutions provider to both existing and new customers. APT is including Informer Web Reporting in its standard offerings suite, and now boasts the most comprehensive solutions package available for the UK market.

"The APT partnership is exciting for us as it really opens up the UK market," said Doug Leupen, President of Entrinsik. "APT is IBM's largest and most respected U2 software partner in the UK.  Now with their expanded U2 distribution role and their fantastic reputation we expect an outstanding win-win relationship."

UniData Bids Adieu to USAM

As noted in the IBM U2 OEM and Direct End Users Handbook(s) respectively, the upcoming UniData 7.2 release will no longer include the old USAM products. USAM was a set of character-based products for print, batch and administration that have been superseded either by features in UniData itself or third party offerings. All USAM functionality will be completely removed from the UniData 7.2 release.

If you have any questions, please contact U2AskUs@us.ibm.com .

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BlueFinity International , a leading provider of cutting-edge software development tools and consultancy services to the MultiValue database and Microsoft .NET developer communities, today announced a special offer for Raining Data's PDP.NET customers to migrate to BlueFinity's mv.NET . 

Some of the incentives qualifying PDP.NET customers will be eligible to receive from BlueFinity include discounts on licenses in addition to the volume discounts in the price book, beneficial payment terms and a variety of consultancy services. 

This limited time offer comes in response to requests from the market as evidenced by comments on various industry message boards.  Peter Hughes, Director at ALMA Services, comments: "We made the move to mv.NET from PDP.NET nearly two years ago because of its superior functionality, especially in the area of MultiValue item updating and database management. We were also impressed with the mv.NET roadmap that was being described at the time and subsequently met with the introduction of .NET Framework 2 and Reporting Services.  With no support for .NET Framework 2 and Visual Studio 2005 in Raining Data's PDP.NET nearly 18 months after BlueFinity released support in mv.NET, we are certain we made the right move."

BlueFinity , a member of the Mpower1 Group of Companies, has become a powerhouse player in the MultiValue industry, carving out a solid presence in the marketplace.  The company's published roadmap, available on the corporate website,  includes plans for the development of both additional features for their existing product range and the introduction of brand-new, innovative products. 

Updates to the product and/or documentation occur on a monthly basis as mv.NET is aggressively enhanced based on feedback from the field.  Future enhancements to mv.NET including support for .NET Framework 3.0 , extended AJAX integration, Vista and 64-bit support reinforce the company's dedication to the product.

"We considered Raining Data's product, but decided against it because we felt their heart was not really into it," states Sholom Hamada, Prudential Stainless & Alloys.  "On the other hand, BlueFinity is a smaller company, but seems to have their heart in their product. The company is staking themselves on .NET and mv.NET. They seem to have the personnel to develop it. They also seem to be advancing it along as Microsoft advances .NET itself. That's a good sign. We feel comfortable with their vision."

Customers who migrate to BlueFinity's mv.NET also do so for its unique technical capabilities.  Drexel Management Systems has many new installations and has successfully migrated all of their original sites. "We had successfully installed other connectivity solutions, but after trying mv.NET, we have found it solid, fast, easy to install, robust, and feature rich," says Drew Conboy, Drexel's President.  "The fact that it fits across multiple flavors of MultiValue makes it the ideal solution. The latest release supports Ajax which is a must have feature for future web development.  If anyone is looking for a way to bring open system technologies to their MultiValue applications they should look no further than to mv.NET from BlueFinity".

BlueFinity customers find it easy to integrate the technology with their existing infrastructure.  Jon Neutens, President of Thede Ward Systems, migrated their .NET integration tool from PDP.NET to mv.NET.  "mv.NET was easy to install and use and it ran as advertised.  We now use mv.NET to run D3 subroutines and to read and write data for our proprietary browser-based business intelligence and reporting tool," explains Neutens.  "In fact, we are so impressed with BlueFinity that we have now implemented a universal D3 Data Object Web Service and are incorporating other new web-based tools and applications, augmenting our current offerings."

BlueFinity has developed superior expertise within their team and prides itself on their strategic role of customer service.  The company routinely hears from industry leaders that BlueFinity takes care of its customers, making a commitment to work together as a team.  Tony Gravagno of Nebula Research & Development comments, "mv.NET support is absolutely outstanding. It is personal, fast, and informative. If I have issues or I need to escalate questions from my clients, we always have an excellent rapport with BlueFinity and it always leads to some sort of resolution as a fix, an enhancement, or a documentation update.  This is the sort of service that people appreciate.  I have confidence that they are interested in building their business and they constantly reinforce the belief that they want to do business with my company and others."

International Spectrum has recently updated their website to include an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) free for the e-Xtra newsletter and other International Spectrum events and news.

With the tighten in corporate spam filters and the amount of email many companies receive, the RSS feed provide a means for MultiValue developers to get MultiValue community news when they have time to read it, and to keep their email inbox free of excess email, but still say update to date on Technical information and industry related news.

International Spectrum's RSS feed will not replace the email newsletter, but provide people additional ways to access the MultiValue technical information and news.

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Sometimes there is a need to rpovide a progress bar while processing information.  Here is a simple utility posted on comp.database.pick to do just that.