Valentina 3 Released; Limited Time Offer

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Stored Procedures, Linux Support and Advanced Server Features

Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces release version 3 of Valentina Office Server and Valentina Developer Network for deploying royalty free, standalone and client-server applications. This major release provides the greatest number of overall improvements to the platform since the release of Valentina 2 in March 2005, while providing backward compatibility with existing solutions built with Valentina 2.x.

SPECIAL OFFER: Purchase Valentina 3 ADK Pro before the end of May 2007 and get the Linux deployment at no additional cost!

The following new features were added to the entire product line of Valentina 3:

Stored Procedures. Stored procedures allow business logic to be stored within the database and then executed when called; this is highly beneficial for reducing network traffic.
Triggers. Triggers allow events to be executed when conditions are met within a database or database table.
Views. Views are a form of virtual table based on the results of a query, allowing dynamic glimpses into data stored in the database.
Hot Back Up. Both standalone applications and Valentina Server based solutions can be automatically backed up and time stamped while running.
Mac OS X Unicode Improvements. Because of improved support from Apple, Inc, Valentina can access the operating system version of ICU, reducing the overall size of deployable Valentina 3 components on the platform.
Backwards Compatibility. Because only modest changes were made to the Valentina format, users can safely test their existing Valentina 2.5.x databases with Valentina 3.

Valentina 3 Server solutions also include features specific to the platform:

Event Scheduler. This allows execution of events on the server to automatically occur periodically.
User Variables. Server solutions can get and set user variables on a per database basis.
Improved Packet Based Protocol. Performance improvements with Server communications builds on previous releases that allow greater compatibility between different versions of clients and servers.

Paradigma Software is also announcing new operating system support for Valentina Office Server and most developer products: native Linux support. This includes Valentina Developer Network support for Linux targets with REAL Software REALbasic, Runtime Revolution, C++, and Valentina Embedded Server, including server scripting with PHP 4/5+ and Ruby on Rails framework. Core Valentina 3 technology is officially supported on Ubuntu 7.x, SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Red Hat Desktop, with compatibility with x86 based distributions running GTK 2.x.

The release of Valentina 3 also has hundreds of minor performance improvements and solutions to customer reported issues.

Valentina Developer Network solution provider Thorsten Hohage of objectmanufactur developed an EOF-like database framework that was originally based around mySQL. Mr Hohage reports that he ported the solution to Valentina in under four hours. Now large SELECT statements that ran upwards of five minutes take less than five seconds under Valentina 3. “The advancements culminating in Valentina 3 make Valentina a worthy successor to mySQL projects that require better performance for complex queries. I am profoundly happy over our move to Valentina.â€