OpenLink Software Announces Virtuoso 3.2 Beta
OpenLink adds Weblog client and server functionality to Virtual
Database Engine for SQL, XML, and Web Services
Burlington, MA. June 25, 2003 - 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 http://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 http://demo.openlinksw.com:8890/tutorial/.
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