Raima News
Newsletter for the Raima User Community
July 2009 Edition

The Embedded Systems Industry is changing to meet future requirements

A message from Steinar Sande, CEO

The embedded software industry is changing to meet future requirements. The Raima division of Birdstep Technology has, with the latest releases of our embedded databases, proven that we continue to support the ever changing requirements of the embedded industry. Today you will find "multi-core" as a frequently used term amongst the real-time operating system vendors. We believe that multi-core technology is an important piece of the puzzle in the development of future embedded database requirements. In addition we here at the Raima division, also see scalability, reliability, high availability as well as ease of use as critical elements for delivering future requirements.

The Raima Database Manager products scale from the very small and nimble footprint requirements of compact devices (RDM Embedded) all the way up to the less constraint medium sized client server devices (RDM Server). We have no intention of trying to compete with Oracle, Microsoft, and Sybase in the enterprise arena but rather will remain focused on the embedded systems market. However, what we will be introducing to the market is the ability of our RDM products to feed data directly into enterprise class databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. This data movement from devices to the enterprise is something a significant number of our clients have asked for.

In our latest releases of RDM Embedded we added support for Web browsers database access with our MicroHTTP Server (Interoperability) and enhanced our replication solutions (High Availability). We also made integration between RDM Embedded and RDM Server much easier by including a RDM Embedded to RDM Server replication engine. Moving forward we will continue to extend our product offerings to meet your requirements.

One final comment, I encourage you to contact our VP of Product Management Duncan Bates duncan.bates@birdstep.com if there are additional feature or functionality you would like to see added to our embedded database products. Another channel for product feature requests, I encourage you to use is our Raima Forum at: www.raima.com/forum, or if you like you can contact me direct at: steinar.sande@birdstep.com.

Press Releases

Birdstep Technology offers RDM Server as an appealing replacement option for MySQL

Birdstep Technology Raima Division announced the launch of a new replacement pricing program targeting MySQL developers looking to mitigate the uncertainty introduced by the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

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Raima Releases Embedded Database for Green Hills INTEGRITY IEC 61508 SIL 3 Industrial Safety Platform

Birdstep Technology Raima Division, which offers state of the art embedded database technologies, today announced the availability of its RDM Server embedded database for the Green Hills INTEGRITY IEC 61508 SIL 3 certified operating system which is the foundation of their Platform for Industrial Safety.

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Foreks selects Birdstep embedded database for its next generation FX product family of real-time data & trading applications.

Birdstep Technology Raima Division, which offers state of the art embedded database technologies, today announced that Foreks selected RDM Embedded for its generation FX product family of real-time data & trading applications.

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Customer Success Stories

Comtech Systems' Collect!T needed to scale so they turned to RDMr Server

This Case Study takes a look at Comtech Systems use of RDM Server 8.1 within their popular Collect! application.

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Metso Automation delivers performance by switching to RDM Server

Metso Automation was facing performance in their data collection application based on a leading Open Source database solution. They replace the database with Birdstep Technology's RDM Server and were able to gain better than expected performance along with the ability to model more complex data structures.

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Winpos achieves big gains by migrating to RDM Server

This Case Study takes a look at Winpos Ab, a longtime customer of RDM Embedded, who took advantage of the easy migration path to RDM Server.

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Using RDM Embedded to Find the Public Opinion at the Dawn of the French Revolution

This Case Study takes a look at an Academic use of RDM Embedded to analyze historical data. A major advantage of RDM Embedded is the network model which allows users to model data in a more real-world manner. It also provides a much faster computation and analysis of data in comparison to the relational database model.

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Partner News

Elsasoft SqlSpec now supports RDM Server

Elsasoft's SqlSpec is an affordable database documentation tool that will generate easy-to-read database documentation.

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Papers & Articles

Database Migration from MySQL to RDM Server

This document is designed to act as a quick guide to the database migration from MySQL to RDM Server by exposing the differences between the two products with regards to the data types, features and SQL statement syntaxes supported differently between them.

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Product Releases & Patches

RDM Embedded version 9.1, Patch A

Birdstep Technology Raima Division released RDM Embedded version 9.1, Patch A. This patch added support for the VxWorks platform and included dirty reads functionality on the Windows platform.

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Upcoming Events

Embedded Systems Conference, East 2009

Please visit Birdstep's Raima division at this year's Embedded Systems Conference Boston. We'll be at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA September 21st - September 24th in booth 415.

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