Valentina 2.5.5 Released; Valentina for Ruby on Rails Announced
Beaverton, Oregon-based Paradigma Software, Inc announces the release of Valentina 2.5.5 – both for Valentina database tools for software vendors and the business ready Valentina Office Server 2.5.5.
Valentina 2.5.5 technology release for all products includes improvements to importing database dumps from mySQL AB’s mySQL database. Developers who are porting from mySQL to Valentina will notice improvements in dumping data from mySQL that in turn is imported into Valentina.
Valentina Office Server 2.5.5, a business-ready database server, also now incorporates scripting support for Ruby on Rails, the object-oriented, open source web framework for building web applications.
Valentina database products, available on Windows and MacOS X, are based on the unique Valentina database engine – an object-relational database engine known for extreme speed. When porting to Valentina, hours become minutes, minutes become seconds when it comes to storing, retrieving and querying databases. Valentina supports all modern standards – native Unicode, XML import/export and ODBC connectivity.
New Valentina ADKs are available that allow creation of local database solutions in both Ruby/Ruby on Rails and PHP 4 and PHP 5. Valentina Application Developer Kits are royalty free local database runtimes for deploying database applications. Valentina ADKs start at $199.
Valentina Developer Network Platform Edition includes a set of tools for all supported operating systems of one development environment – and allows deployment of Valentina Embedded Database Server, royalty free. In addition, VDN Platform Edition includes reseller options, VDN Platform Edition sells for $599.
Valentina ADKs and VDN is available for most development tools on Windows and MacOS X, including Runtime Revolution, Adobe Director, Cocoa/Objective-C, C++ (xCode, MS Visual Studio), REALbasic, .net framework, COM, PHP, Ruby and ODBC.