The Valentina Report: Kernel Release 1.8.8

Issue 010516 / May 16, 2001

CONTENTS

NEW FEATURES IN VALENTINA RELEASE 1.8.8
SPECIAL OFFERS FROM PARADIGMA
WHAT' S NEW IN THIRD PARTY TOOLS
MADE WITH VALENTINA SPOTLIGHT
WHAT IS VALENTINA?

NEW FEATURES IN VALENTINA RELEASE 1.8.8

All Valentina platform developers (PLATFORM) will enjoy new improvements in
release 1.8.8, as well as special features for Valentina for Director
(V4MD) and
Valentina for REALbasic users (V4RB).

* PLATFORM: Four new data types - Medium, UMedium, FixedBinary and VarBinary;

* PLATFORM: More choices on the number of database files.

* V4RB: Improved Access to REALbasic Objects - Improvements in REALbasic class
layers increase access speed from REALbasic objects;

* V4MD: Better Record Handling - Ability to obtain and set values of fields as
lists for records;

* V4MD: Database Extension Customization - Set their own file extensions in
Lingo for Valentina database files;

*V4MD: Better Picture Handling - Now Pictures can be retrieved not only as
cast
members, but also as variables into Lingo;

* V4MD: Improved Memory Handling - A new Object, MemBuffer, gives advanced
Director developers enhanced control over allocating, accessing and releasing
memory;

For a complete list of improvements visit
http://www.paradigmasoft.com/new.html

SPECIAL OFFERS FROM PARADIGMA

Pardigma Software reintroduces the Valentina for Director Competitive Upgrade.

Users of Integration New Media's V12 database can upgrade to Valentina for
Director 1.8.8 at a reduced price. V12 users can get either Valentina for
Director (Macintosh or Windows) for $99, or both for $149. Buy both and get
VAPP! (Valentina application) for free! VAPP!, a graphic tool for rapid
creation and testing of Valentina databases is available in 68K, PowerPC and
Carbon versions.

Visit Paradigma Software or its authorized distributors in Italy, Germany
or the
Netherlands for more information on this special offer.

WHAT' S NEW IN THIRD PARTY TOOLS

Valentina Spider 1.0

AddGo's Valentina Spider 1.0 gives you a free search engine for almost any
existing director movie. Assemble a search engine and build an index all from a
single window.

http://www.addgo.com/developer2.asp

VLOP 1.1

Charles Yeoman's collection of classes for REALbasic, which implements a
lightweight object persistence scheme, using Valentina as the persistence
mechanism.

http://www.quantum-meruit.com/RB/VLOP.sit.hqx

vServe 2.0.a

vServe is an application and client tools to allow REALbasic programmers to
share a Valentina database with multiple TCP/IP clients.

http://abDataTools.com

DataShell 1.2

MacBrowse is proud to announce the availability of DataShell
1.2, a driver solution that allows FutureBASIC^3 developers to use Valentina
XCMD, an object-relational, SQL-powered database engine, in their applications.

http://www.macbrowse.com

MADE WITH VALENTINA SPOTLIGHT: INTELLI INNOVATIONS PACKAGE TRACKER 3

Package Tracker 3. Got packages? Get Package Tracker 3, the latest version of
the first and only complete, multi-carrier package management suite
available on
the Mac and Mac OS X. Whether you're running Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X operating
system, you'll benefit from Package Tracker 3's intuitive, award-winning user
interface and dozens of time-saving features.

http://www.intellisw.com/packagetracker/index.shtml

WHAT IS VALENTINA?

Valentina is a new ultra-fast, object-relational database technology from
Paradigma Software, made available to developers through cost effective,
royalty
free software developer kits for the most popular development and RAD tools.

All Valentina SDKs support the Valentina set of SQL commands and full-text
searches. They can also use QuickTime to store JPEGs in a compressed format, in
addition to storage of any BLOB data, including text, graphics, audio or video.

Valentina database projects can handle both single byte (western languages) and
double byte text (Japanese, Chinese, Korean) so that developers can create
truly
global database solutions.

Development kits are also available for Purity Software's WebSiphon, REAL
Software's REALbasic, (Macintosh and Windows), COM (for Delphi and Visual Basic
users), Java, xCards, Metrowerks CodeWarrior and Microsoft's Visual C++. VAPP!,
a powerful, easy to use, fully AppleScript compliant application allows rapid
visual creation of Valentina database schema. New! Mach-O version of VC++SDK!

Paradigma Software developed the ultra-fast Valentina database kernel, the core
of its line of database products for designers and developers. Founded in 1998
by Ruslan Zasukhin, Paradigma Software has teamed with US-based Proactive
International, LLC for international business development. For additional
information, visit the Paradigma Software website at
http://www.paradigmasoft.com.

Got Valentina news? Send it to info@paradigmasoft.com.

Contact

Paradigma Software
info@paradigmasoft.com
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

Proactive International, LLC
info@proactive-intl.com
http://www.proactive-intl.com