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Free Web Server Plugin Available For Download
Max Server Pages Supports Xbase-scripted Applications On Linux and Windows Web Servers
PlugSys announces immediate availability of Max Server Pages (MSP), the database-oriented server-side scripting product for Linux and Windows web servers. Using classic Xbase commands and functions, MSP developers quickly access data stored in DBF files and popular SQL databases.
PlugSys International LLC
1636 Graff Avenue
San Leandro, CA 94577
(510) 352-2228
Fax: (510) 352-2231
http://www.plugsys.com
News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Marc Schnapp,
PlugSys International
(510) 352-2230
May 7, 2001
Free Web Development Engine Available For Download
Max Server Pages Supports Same Applications
On Linux and Windows Web Servers
SAN LEANDRO, CA- PlugSys announces immediate availability of Max Server Pages (MSP), the database-oriented server-side scripting product for Linux and Windows web servers. Using classic Xbase commands and functions, MSP developers quickly access data stored in DBF files and popular SQL databases. From there its a simple process of blending the results with HTML and Javascript. Max Server Pages Free Edition (MSP/FE) can be downloaded from the companys web site.
Xbase Scripting Language
Max Server Pages addresses a common deficiency in web development. Other server-side languages retrofit database handling syntax and semantics onto a conventional logic engine. These implementations are clumsy and require additional coding effort. Xbase was conceived to be a database development platform. MSP leverages the language to simplify data extraction and result set navigation. The development approach relies on a time-tested cursor-like memory model that PlugSys calls the virtual DBF."
PHP and ASP developers have provided encouraging feedback during the extensive alpha and beta test of MSP. These programmers appreciate the control and speediness they have discovered in Max Server Pages. MSP installs as a self-contained performance-oriented engine providing dynamic compilation, caching with runtime evaluation capabilities.
Free Edition Functionality
Max Server Pages Free Edition (MSP/FE) provides full functionality. Applications using the Free Edition functionality may be distributed and deployed broadly- at no cost. MSP/FE provides all the functionality of the Professional Edition product. MSP/FE will primarily be used by programmers as a development and testing environment. MSP/FE limits web access to 3 unique IP users during any 24·hour time period.
MSP Professional Edition: For Demanding Applications
When a web site is ready to be deployed, MSP Professional Edition (MSP/PE) is the appropriate product. MSP/PE imposes no IP connection limitations and adds library interfaces for precompiled code in Xbase, C and C++.
Full Database Connectivity
MSP provides developers with access to all significant data stores:
RDBMS- Using the PlugSys ODBC Connector, developers can query and update any SQL database with an ODBC driver. As with all PlugSys products, this capability is supported for Windows and Linux servers. (Red Hat 7.x includes ODBC support. Users of other distributions can obtain documentation and software from http://www.unixodbc.org/.)
Xbase data files- The native MSP data engine supports DBF files and its own MTX single-key index format. By adding the PlugSys DBF Extender*, developers can access FoxPro, dBASE and Clipper datafiles. Multiple key index files are supported. And the DBF Extender respects native LAN locking behaviors for each respective environment.
Max Server Pages Benefits
Max Server Pages offers developers numerous benefits:
· Scalability and portability- The same MSP templates run under Intel Linux and the 32-bit Microsoft platforms.
· Code security- MSP Professional Edition provides support for precompiled Xbase code libraries (using the Max compiler available free from PlugSys).
· Easy Linux installation- PlugSys anticipates strong interest from developers migrating to Linux. So, MSP provides a friendly and comprehensive software installer, simplifying the process. (The installation script configures Apache without disrupting any other server-side applications.)
· No barriers" Windows development and testing- MSP supports development and testing under Windows 95, 98, ME, XP and NT Workstation. When a developer selects the workstation installation option, PlugSys installs and configures a full Apache web server on his or her computer. Within 5 minutes developers can be testing MSP scripts.
Further information (including a feature comparison table) is available at the PlugSys web site (http://www.plugsys.com/).
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About PlugSys
PlugSys International enjoys a decade of development experience based upon a predecessor product line marketed in Brazil as Joiner. Joiner is still heavily used by DOS and SCO Unix developers in that market. Max is the 32-bit successor with availability for Microsofts 32-bit Windows operating systems and for major Linux distributions.
About Xbase
Xbase first appeared in dBASE II in 1981. The introduction of the Clipper compiler made the language an ideal tool for consultants and VARs to create vertical applications. A language standard committee (ANSI X3J19) was convened in 1990 to identify the common language features. (The committees convenor, Marc Schnapp, directs product strategy for PlugSys.) Xbase remains highly popular, appearing in the PlugSys Max compiler and visual" flavors of dBASE and FoxPro.
About Sequiter and CodeBase
- DBF Extender is built using CodeBase, the premier DBF access technology, from Sequiter Software. Sequiter (www.sequiter.com) has been continually developing and enhancing CodeBase since 1988. CodeBase has won a string of plaudits from computer reviewers over its career. VB Tech Journal put it most succinctly, saying its query optimization technology is fast."
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