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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 30, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 26
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Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
OpenLink Software Announces
Virtuoso 3.2
OpenLink Software, Inc., a leading provider of universal data access and
enterprise information integration middleware, announces Virtuoso 3.2 -- the
latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web
Services -- for Mac OS X.
The new release incorporates full client and server support for the
Blogger,
Moveable Type, and MetaWeblog APIs, providing users with choice over location,
format, data storage, development environment, and host operating system, for
personal, community, and corporate Weblogs. The new release also facilitates
the transparent integration of Weblog data with other enterprise data
sources.
Of course, Virtuoso continues to provide access to heterogeneous data
sources
-- databases, XML documents, and Web Services -- through industry standard
data access interfaces such as XML, XQuery, XPath, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB,
and ADO.NET. It also integrates transparently with runtime environments for
distributed computing such as Microsoft .NET, Mono, and J2EE, enabling the
creation and hosting of WSDL-compliant XML Web Services, Stored Procedures,
Functions, Triggers, and User Defined Types, written in Java or any .NET bound
language. Furthermore, the new release extends its Virtual Web Application
Server functionality to include support for Python and Perl, in addition to
existing support for .NET, ASP, PHP, and Java Server Pages.
"Virtuoso's new features reflect the Internet community's increasing
awareness
of the inherent links between data, information, and knowledge," said Kingsley
Idehen, president & CEO of OpenLink Software. "Weblogs are catalysts for a new
way of interacting with the distributed loosely-structured database we know as
the World Wide Web. As leaders and innovators in the data access and data
integration technology segments, we have taken it upon ourselves to unveil a
powerful yet cost-effective solution, that adds knowledge persisted in Weblogs
to an ever increasing array of internal and external data sources that are
exposed via a single virtual database, which then makes this data available to
any XML, SQL, or Web Services standards compliant applications or development
environments."
Virtuoso 3.2 for Mac OS X is now available for download from OpenLink's web
site at
www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/. Builds for other
platforms will
be available soon. You can also interact with live feature demonstrations via
an online Virtuoso instance at
demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/.
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