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Software industry is comprised by businesses involved in the process of development, publication and maintenance of computer programs. The industry’s history goes back to the mid-1970s, the time of the PC revolution. Software services, such as training and consultancy also belong to software industry.
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EnterpriseDB, a database management system (DBMS) developer, reported an attraction of extra-budgetary development resources. EnterpriseDB was founded in March 2004. The company is based in New Jersey (USA), with representation offices in Europe and Asia. EnterpriseDB develops products on the basis of freeware BDMS PostgreSQL and positions its solutions as the alternative to the products of well-known companies, and Oracle in particular. As it is stated in the press release, EnterpriseDB obtained 10 million dollars of financial support. The investors were IBM Corporation as well as Charles River Ventures, Fidelity Ventures and Valhalla Partners venture funds.
As of today EnterpriseDB obtained from the investors the total of almost 38 million dollars. EnterpriseDB intends to allocate the investment for further extension of functionality of its software and for marketing purposes. At the same time, EnterpriseDB declared the release of two new DBMS programs: Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Advanced Server. Both the solutions are built on the basis of PostgreSQL 8.3, a Database Management System characterized by high productivity and extended means of administration.
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The Adobe Company announced that it’s going to produce a program package for visual development of interactive web-applications, which will free the designers from the need to work with the source code. Adobe Thermo will make it possible “to revive” draft designs of sites and generate a full-fledged interactive application on their basis. Designers will be able to see the generated code, however it’s correction won’t be needed. Thus, all the efforts can be focused on the visual part. As a rule, conflicts between the programmers and the designers arise directly from the different views on the visual design and the performance of the applications. Adobe Thermo is called upon to reduce these disputes to a minimum. This set of tools will come in the market in 2008 and will be compatible with Flex Builder environment.
