Vendors Maximize Value of MultiValue Investments
March 2009 - Database Trends and Applications Magazine recently posed a question to industry leaders in the MultiValue Community.
IN THE FACE OF an uncertain economic outlook, organizations as well as government agencies and educational institutions are focused on controlling costs, while also maximizing IT investments that have already been made. What is your company doing to help customers extend the value of their MultiValue assets?
BOB
MARKOWITZ, SALES EXECUTIVE, JBASE INTERNATIONAL
ENHANCING AND EXTENDING rather than replacing is the
name of the game. jBASE International is committed
to helping our customers leverage the latest
technologies while still retaining the fundamental
value in their MultiValue investment. We deliver a
product that is integrated with the host operating
system to ensure that the new technologies are
supported, plus we have a professional services team
available for training, conversion, and complete
project lifecycle and implementation activities to
support our customers’ changing needs. We maintain
what we believe to be one of the largest development
teams in the MultiValue marketplace. We regularly
update the current version of jBASE (Release 4) and
have committed to provide support for this release
level through to 2012. This stable version
availability allows our customers to direct their
resources to application support and onward
development rather than constantly being forced to
upgrade. We have frozen our product license costs
for more than 6 years continuing to remain very
competitive within the market and provide real value
to our customers. Our published road map for
releases, which is driven by customer input, shows
that jBASE Release 5 will be available for our
customers this year and will be a true 64-bit system
with resilient files for use with the new hardware
platforms and new versions of operating systems.
Release 6 is already in the design phase.
DAVID
COOPER, LEAD DEVELOPER, BLUEFINITY INTERNATIONAL
THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CLIMATE is
encouraging organizations to maximize their current
IT investment, that is, they will look to
enhance/adapt/integrate what they have at the moment
to achieve IT aims for business gain in preference
to spending large sums of money on infrastructure
replacement programs.
This fact makes the need to be able to integrate MultiValue technology with other non-MultiValue components even more pertinent. It could be argued that it presents the MultiValue community with an opportunity to prove that it can play on an equal footing with the other (commercially larger) kids on the block. This current climate is being seized upon by MultiValue developers and resellers as an ideal opportunity to sell and prove the concept of enhancing current MultiValue investment through integration. ‘Integration’ in the broadest sense of the term—integration with other databases, with new interface presentation technologies and new software development tools or creating new applications leveraging off of the existing functionally rich and powerful MultiValue systems already in place. BlueFinity is firmly focused on the issue of integrating MultiValue with Microsoft technology, specifically within the .NET technology space. The opportunity and solutions are here; the question is—will the MultiValue community continue to rise to the challenge?
PETE
LOVELESS, DIRECTOR, MPOWER1 INTERNATIONAL
Read the full interview with Pete Loveless, CEO of
jBASE International and Director of Mpower1
here.
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About jBASE International
jBASE International, a member of the Mpower1
group of companies, is a leading supplier of
database management software and web enabling
tools for developing, deploying, and maintaining
business applications solutions. The flagship
product, jBASE, was designed from the ground up
to be an open database product that would bring
the strengths of MultiValue technology into the
mainstream computing market. With exclusive
worldwide distribution rights, jBASE
International offers technologies and assistance
that allow businesses to thrive into the
future.