End
of Life for Revelation/Advanced Revelation on Vista; Supported Upgrade
Path Offered
Revelation Software has announced it will no longer support any
versions of Revelation or Advanced Revelation on Vista workstations,
whether running in standalone mode or as a part of a network. Based
on feedback from its clients, in-house testing, and anecdotal reports
from the field, the company said there appear to be too many issues
with Vista to allow Revelation or Advanced Revelation applications
to run reliably.
“Because they are both DOS-based systems, they are just not
working as well on Vista,” Mike Ruane, president and CEO of
Revelation, told 5 Minute Briefing. “It does run DOS applications
to a point, but there are just too many things going on that either
we can't replicate or that we just can't fix because it is out of
our control,” he explained. “We are saddened by this
because it is like the end of an era.” Revelation has been
available since 1982 and Advanced Revelation since 1987.
“Really, Vista is just the final nail in the coffin,”
Ruane said. DOS applications have had issues with memory because
hardly any hardware vendors support expanded memory anymore, he
said. There are other issues with hardware as well, he added, “because
in 1987 there was no USB so people buy USB printers now and they
wonder why they can't print from these applications.”
However, Ruane explained, “We saw this coming and, as a part
of the 8.0 release of OpenInsight, we had built a whole module called
Arev32.“ The Arev32 product was developed as a viable, affordable,
and supported upgrade path, according to the company. Arev32 will
run on Windows XP, 2000, and Vista, has no 64K limit, and will work
with all currently available hardware.
“We took all of the Arev source code and recompiled it inside
of OpenInsight,” said Ruane. “The code that had been
written in C or Assembler, we modified accordingly so that it would
run underneath Windows and then we came up with an upgrade path,
a wizard that walks you through it, vendors that give you support
both in-house and out in the world.” The result, he said,
is that customers “get a bunch of immediate benefits from
it.” It runs as it did, but it will run on current hardware,
and there are no more memory issues. “You get to take advantage
of a lot of the benefits that came with a modern operating system
– email, PDFs, CSV, doing a print preview on the screen rather
than just being stuck in the old 80 by 25 columns,” Ruane
said.
“And once they get here,” Ruane said, ”because
we are going to keep OpenInsight running on the new hardware and
the new networks, Areve32 will just be carried along for the ride,
and as a final bonus they are really running a Windows application
even though they don't know it. It looks just like their DOS application,
so they can actually start to migrate to a graphical look in their
applications.”
In related news, there are now tutorial videos on YouTube for OpenInsight,
noted Ruane. Topics include how to use the OpenInsight Arev32 Conversion
WIzard to migrate Arev applications to Arev32; how to use establish
a connection between OpenInsight and an IBM U2 data server using
the OpenInsight U2 Connector; how to enable the Drag and Drop capabilities
in an OpenInsight form; the theory behind Context Sensitive Menus
in OpenInsight Forms; and why a developer should use commuter modules
to support their OpenInsight-based Forms. Go to the Revelation
Web site and click on the Tutorials bar on the left
to access the videos.
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InterSystems Ensemble Selected by Texas Department of Information Resources
InterSystems Corp. announced it has been awarded a contract that specifies InterSystems as an approved integration platform vendor for government agencies and public education entities throughout the State of Texas. InterSystems is a leading provider of innovative database and integration software. Its product line includes the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database, InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration platform, and InterSystems HealthShare platform for regional and national electronic health records.
The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) master contract covers a three-year period and includes an optional two-year extension. “InterSystems has a proven track record of success in delivering integration technology to government organizations worldwide,” said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems vice president of strategic planning, in making the announcement.
The State of Texas went through a “pretty lengthy and deliberate process” before making the selection of InterSystems, Grabscheid told 5 Minute Briefing. “The exciting thing from our perspective is that it provides access to the software for lots of different state agencies and other parts of the government in Texas,” he added. The contract award will make it easy for agencies, academic institutions, and hospital districts throughout the State of Texas to utilize Ensemble to integrate current applications as well as to build new composite applications that leverage their core systems.
The contract enables more than 225 state agencies and hundreds of public educational and healthcare institutions to generate a purchase order under the DIR master contract number. All negotiations have been finalized and the software pricing is already set in the contract. Since everything has already received a sign-off by the Texas DIR, the purchase process for each state organization has essentially been reduced to one step. Orders handled via the master contract can be placed directly with InterSystems or via participating resellers identified on the DIR GoDirect Web site. For more information, visit the InterSystems Web site.
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InterSystems and SC Systems Partner to Deliver New Development Capabilities for MultiValue Users
InterSystems Corp. and SC Systems Limited, a member of the Mpower1 Group of Companies, have announced the availability of the OSMOSiS Rapid Application Development (RAD) Tool on InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database. The OSMOSiS SB-Converter is intended to offer a smooth migration path and, together with automated utilities, enable users who developed systems in the IBM System Builder and SB+ RAD environments to easily move to the open standards-based CACHÉ object database.
By running OSMOSiS on InterSystems CACHÉ, SB+ users worldwide can now capitalize on their existing investments in business critical applications and the many man hours taken to develop them, according to the vendors. Features in OSMOSiS mean that all their existing SB+ trained staff can be transitioned with ease resulting in no loss of momentum to development plans.
“This offering enables all System Builder and SB+ users to leverage their existing core applications by evolving them to use the very latest technologies,” said David Peters, business development manager, SC Systems, in making the announcement. OSMOSiS is a modern RAD tool that provides a fast development cycle for both character and graphical development, with numerous visual controls. It enables the delivery of highly functional applications that have a rich look-and-feel, easy data access, and interoperability with standard desktop applications such as Microsoft Office.
InterSystems' product line includes the InterSystems CACHÉ high-performance object database, InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration platform, and InterSystems HealthShare platform for national and regional electronic health records. For more information on InterSystems, go here. For more on SC Systems, go here.
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Australia-based
T Data Joins BlueFinity International's Distribution Network
BlueFinity International, a member of the Mpower1 Group of Companies, has added T Data to its network of distributors of the BlueFinity product line. T Data began operations in 1982 as a custom software developer using the MultiValue data model and gradually evolved into a value-added distributor. T Data will market and sell BlueFinity’s mv.NET and Reporting Services Data Connector (RSDC) From its offices in Sydney and Auckland to businesses throughout Australia, New Zealand and into Asia.
BlueFinity is developing its channel to market In Australia and New Zealand, explained Pete Loveless, CEO of BlueFinity International, in making the announcement. The new partnership with T Data is important to BlueFinity because it gives it a significant partner in the right time zone for the key Australia and New Zealand market.
mv.NET is a comprehensive solution for accessing MultiValue databases from within Microsoft's .NET environment. It enables software designers to combine the power and flexibility of proven MultiValue technology with the feature rich .NET environment. Its integration with Microsoft Visual Studio provides a rapid application development environment fine-tuned for the MultiValue developer.
RSDC, when used with mv.NET, supports the full feature set of Microsoft's Reporting Services product and allows it to be used against the major MultiValue database platforms with almost no extra work on behalf of the application developer, according to the vendor. This allows MultiValue databases to provide sophisticated, real-time report data using a variety of delivery mediums (Browser, PDF, rich-client, application-embedded). For more information, go here.
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