ANN: Free Mediator RDD for SQL databases!

Dear xBase developers!

OTC is proud to announce availability of
the new version of Mediator RDD (ver. 4.1)

The good news is that now our commercial quality package
is available free of charge for everyone interested!

We've released the following free packages which can be
downloaded from our website and used commercially:

- Mediator Enterprise server for MySQL for 5 concurrent connections
- Mediator Enterprise server for PostgreSQL for 5 concurrent connections
- Mediator Enterprise server for Oracle for 3 concurrent connections
- Mediator Enterprise server for MS SQL for 3 concurrent connections
- Mediator Enterprise server for IBM DB2 for 3 concurrent connections
- Mediator client for CA-Clipper/xHarbour/Harbour/OLEDB for DOS/Windows
- Mediator client for xHarbour/Harbour for Linux

Now its the time to migrate to SQL!
Using together excellent xHarbour/Harbour compilers
and Mediator finally moves your xBase applications into
21st century.


If you are interested in migration of your DBF-based
Clipper/xHarbour/Harbour applications to Oracle,
MS SQL, IBM DB2, Sybase ASA, MySQL or PostgreSQL database,
please visit us at http://www.otc.pl or read the following
info.

Enjoy your application working on SQL database!

General information
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OTC Mediator is an RDD driver for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2,
Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.

Mediator was designed to allow quick migration of DBF data
and XBase applications to one of the mentioned databases.
It implements all RDD features required for easy migration
including RECNO record numbers, DELETED flag, Clipper-compatible
record and file locks as well as complex expression indexes.

Basically, Mediator package consists of three parts:

- libraries implementing RDD interface to be linked
into CA-Clipper/xHarbour or Harbour application
- Mediator server translating application requests
into SQL commands sent to database
- set of utilities facilitating data (DBF) and index
(NTX,CDX) migration to RDBMS


Where/when to use Mediator?
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1. You are the user and/or producer of CA-Clipper,
xHarbour or Harbour applications.

2. You find that the application is functionally good but
technically unacceptable due to any of the following reasons:

- DBFs corruptions resulting in data loss and system downtime
- indexes corruptions resulting in reindexing and system downtime
- low scalability and efficiency
- inability of integration with the new (SQL-based) applications
- usage of the old, inefficient and insecure file-sharing architecture
- problems when using really large (multigigabytes) tables
- inability to run application over WAN network
- ...

3. As an application user, you cannot afford the risk and/or
budget of buying and implementing in your company the completely
new application.

4. As an application producer you cannot afford the risk/time/budget
of rewriting the complete application using new (SQL-based) tools.

Mediator offers you the tested and easy way of migrating your data
to SQL database while preserving your application.
Mediator is being used in several thousands of installations in
many countries all over the world. The installations range from
single workstations to 6000 workstations installed in single company.


Don't waste your time and money - Mediator was designed for you!

If you have questions related to our products, please visit our website
(http://www.otc.pl) or send us an e-mail message to office@otc.pl

OTC Team