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dbOvernet How do you benefit using dbOvernet? First, dbOvernet technology benefits everyone by discarding the boundaries imposed by typical application technology that binds the user closely to the data source. Remote users become connected users and connected users can become remote users. Applications used on-site can be moved offsite. Staff can be located anywhere in the world, yet fully connected at will (and, via the Internet, at very low cost). Because dbOvernet is cost-realistic, all businesses can offer complete, familiar, easy-to-use databased applications to any users, anywhere. In today's high-stakes marketing world, advantages are hard to come by. Smaller and mid-size businesses don't have the technological expertise or funding to establish typical, expensive data gathering and distribution applications, yet their needs are the same as the large corporations: they need to move data - quickly and inexpensively. Business alliances are the soup de jour and nothing brings alliances together better than dbOvernet. Today, businesses ally through relationships to offer advantages previously available only to the large corporations. dbOvernet can be an important tool to enhance and secure those alliances. Applications can be developed for alliance members to provide preferred customer access, allow online supplier communication, establish partner alliance information transmission, and to accommodate many other relationship-enhancing opportunities. Developing client applications using dbOvernet as a backbone is no more difficult than developing for traditional environments. In fact, it may be easier since the developer is not concerned about data delivery and server-side functions. Therefore, businesses can offer one user interface - whether the user is a member of local LAN or a sales representative thousands of miles away. The possibilities are endless:
When you look through the example client programs, keep some of the above in mind. The examples, although generalized, have enough variety to clearly show how easy it is to provide solutions never before thought possible or practical. Contact us or one of our developer consultants for guidance and development assistance. Just when you thought maybe you'd have to learn Java, DHTML, ASP, ActiveX and all those other technologies just to stay ahead, we come along with dbOvernet. For you as a developer, dbOvernet is not just a completely familiar drop and go visual component architecture, with familiar properties and methods. dbOvernet is much more - it's the key to a new market, a new direction for your consulting business, a new source of revenue. Without any stress, without any serious learning curve, you can be into development within hours of receiving dbOvernet. You'll probably find that many of your existing applications are code-reusable and can be readily modified to use dbOvernet components in place of standard data components. Imagine approaching clients and potential clients with this new service. Look at the list of applications above. Think of the possibilities. Also, as a dbOvernet developer (a dbOvernetter), we'll include you in our online dbOvernet Developer Directory. We'll point business and web designer inquiries to you through that directory. Flexibility dbOvernet is not a quick, 2-tier modification to simulate multi-tier functionality. From the ground up, dbOvernet meets the standards of multi-tier theory. Through our Client-side SQL model, we certainly make it easy to emulate 2-tier functionality in a multi-tier environment, and when the rubber hits the road, dbOvernet's superior architecture provides you with complete, unrestricted design capability to meet virtually any need you'll have. The Server Object class Remember, this is a new world with lots of new software opportunities. As you work with multi-tier technology, the ideas will pour out from you and your clients. With dbOvernet, you'll never have to come back to us for solutions. Our architecture gives you all the flexibility you need. For instance, part of our architecture includes the unique Server Object class. Server objects provide the communication link between the middle-tier functionality of our server-side components and your data sources. We provide you with Server Objects that handle several database environments: Inprise BDE, ODBCExpress and IB Objects. But you can write a new Server Object to handle any environment, usually in just a few minutes. It's simple, usually just cut and paste and a few lines of code. When you want to handle alternate data sources, like moving periodic live video images, accessing and transmitting documents, setting up group communications and handling voice packet movement, dbOvernet is there to make it happen. When you need to distribute database chores, access multi-site databases, run multiple server-side applications through different ports, dbOvernet can handle the task. Get the source code for independence Don't buy any product that doesn't provide source code at a reasonable price. With it, you are completely free and independent. Without source code, you're at the mercy and whim of the software engineers. More than anyone, today's typical web design group is replete with beleaguered, harried, overworked, highly-stressed individuals. Not only do you have to evaluate and learn to use new technologies that change as rapidly as the seasons, you also have to put up with the claims of every computerphile who picks up FrontPage and proclaims they can design web systems. We use the words web systems deliberately. A web page or group of pages is one thing, but you are a professional web system designer, more than anything else. You have to understand the needs of your clients, you have to know how to handhold them and guide them through the myriad of possibilities. You have to be both artist and business consultant. Understanding the client's business needs is as important as designing an effective web site. Time and again, clients will ask you to provide real business solutions - online order processing, branch inventory updating, contact updating for remote sales reps, and time and again, you'll hit the frustrating wall of trying to adapt the stateless protocol of the Internet to meet real-time database processing needs with technologies that just don't seem to fit. Now, through dbOvernet, you can meet those needs. Clients of any size can benefit from this affordable technology. So how do you do it? If you understand RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools, pick up dbOvernet and Inprise's Delphi. Or ally yourself with a qualified dbOvernet consultant. A qualified dbOvernetter can provide client-specific or adaptable solutions. |