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Mirye Software Publishing is moving to a new release format for Runtime Revolution, modeling it on a highly successful issue format. This method includes the standard updates to the base software, but also extended benefits to customers that are eligible for software updates. Our first release in this format is Issue 808: What to Do With Your Summer.

Benefits of Mirye Runtime Revolution Issue Format

The new release format offers the following benefits:

• Additional, Permanent Benefits. These are benefits that customers receive regardless of when they are announced. With this first issue, Studio and Enterprise customers receive Valentina for Revolution 3.1 ADK Advanced, the ultra fast database toolkit for Revolution.
• Limited, Timed Benefits. These benefits are only available if you download them within the limited time. With this first issue, Media, Studio and Enterprise customers receive the Business as Unusual Volume 1 collection of 20 royalty free soundtracks.
• News and Articles. With each release, there will be news, articles and tips offered to help enhance your use of Revolution.
• Special Offers. You can get special member offers for other, or third party products that will enhance your use of Revolution.

The Why Behind Mirye Runtime Revolution Format Change

Mirye Runtime Revolution is a professional tool for creating and deploying cross platform applications on all major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In many respects, it overlaps and competes with the likes of Adobe Director, REAL Software REALbasic, MS Visual Basic, Java and even Adobe Flash or Microsoft’s .net framework.

Mirye Runtime Revolution overlaps with REALbasic, Java and .net framework in that it can deploy to multiple operating systems using mostly the same code base. But that simply describes features in the last step of a work flow pipeline – not the entire pipeline of a release.

Designers that have experience with Adobe Director, Flash or Microsoft’s new Expression more likely to recognize the pipeline, because these products also excel in aggregating combinations of audio, video and graphics assets. These are elements that are usually developed by someone else and upstream in the workflow pipeline.

Teams though can share more than just assets – but the knowledge of how to best exploit the use of those assets at each point in the work flow.

This brings us back to the format change and the question: Is Mirye Runtime Revolution only a deployment technology, or does it encompass the aggregated assets and knowledge? Even if you are a weekend developer and you wear all the hats of artist, layout designer, sound technician and coder, an additional benefit at any point in your work flow pipeline provides benefits to the entire project.

This brings us back to our new issues format. By providing ongoing knowledge and benefits in an magazine-like issue format – expanded beyond a software only update – a release can deliver benefits that are more timely, and benefit your entire work flow.

Day 2 of the core Revolution Live conference continues. Read the rest of this entry »

Revolution Live 2008 begins today. Revolution Live 2008 is a conference for developers that use Runtime Revolution, a cross platform development tool published in North America by co-sponsor Mirye Software.

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After reading a great article in Practical Web Design on FaceBook integration, we set up both the Runtime Revolution Facebook Group and Valentina Facebook Group on…Facebook. Tom McGrath of Lazy River Software asked me earlier today why you’d want to spread yourself so thin across multiple venues. There are plenty of social implications – its extremely hard to keep up with all of these social networking venues. They all want to own our identity and content – and they all (the ones that will survive) offer integration APIs, videos, music and more to get you to participate.

But this really isn’t about the technology – its about the socializing and appropriate venue. It seems like that simple truth may be eluding many, who probably have already forgotten what drew them to pre-Web 2.0 venues that very much were about where you hung out. The more you can get your face out there in the right venue, the more likely you will meet others of that also like that venue.

As lead investor and co-owner of Paradigma Software, the Sun Microsystems $1 billion acquisition of MySQL announced today was a big filler of my inbox – both from the conventional computer industry media and users of our Valentina Database System. That Oracle also acquired BEA Systems was barely covered but also of interest. I think the NetworkWorld quote gets to the heart of the why.

MySQL has become a formidable competitor to other relational database management systems from companies such as Oracle and IBM. The database itself is free for people to download, and MySQL makes money by offering subscription support packages.

Sun has, over the course of the last five years, found itself the guest without a chair at the enterprise dinner table. Solaris OS was the operating system of choice when companies were building their first internet infrastructures, and Sun found new relevance with the Java – only for Java to find cold comfort on the desktop but a welcome home on the server. Open sourcing Java and now, the acquisition of MySQL strengthens the relationship it would like to groom with the now respected open source developer community; the relationship that Oracle’s support (or hijacking as Ive heard it referred to) of Red Hat Linux was supposed to accomplish.

This will matter little to developers who use ultra-fast Valentina database system or cross-platform development environments like Revolution. Read the rest of this entry »

Valentina technology release 3.5 is now available through Paradigma Software and Mirye Software Publishing. There is a lot to like in this release – it includes a lot of new example projects for .net (C# and VB.net), Adobe Director and Runtime Revolution, to help get started with stored procedures and triggers. But the most interesting item is user defined properties for server databases. This represents a new breakthrough in database development – while object-relational and true object-oriented databases have existed for years, treating the database itself as a programmatic object is new, especially when talking about a database server.