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POWERVISTA BRIDGE ASSISTS BUSINESS EXPERTS.


"The software industry believes the best way to develop database applications has already been found. That is a misconception." So stated Eric White For British economist, see Eric Wyndham White.

Eric Lance White (born December 30 1965, in San Francisco, California) is an American former professional basketball player in the NBA. He played collegiately at Pepperdine University from 1983-1987.
, president of PowerVista Software, Inc., Pine, Colo., (www.powervista.com), maker of the newly released PowerVista Bridge database application development system.

PowerVista Bridge focuses on assisting a business' experts to distill disĀ·till
v.
1. To subject a substance to distillation.

2. To separate a distillate by distillation.

3. To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify a substance by distillation.
 their knowledge into new graphical business software for the MS Windows platform. Their development teams realize three to ten fold gains in productivity using PowerVista Bridge engine, PowerVista BridgeBuilder layout tools and PowerVista Markup Language markup language

Standard text-encoding system consisting of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship among its parts. The most widely used markup languages are SGML, HTML, and XML.
.

PowerVista Bridge environment is to developing database applications what Internet development tools are to publishing on the Internet. To deliver a web site, authoring tools, browsers and HTML HTML
 in full HyperText Markup Language

Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web.
 are required. PowerVista Bridge has identical components, but is focused on database application development. It is specifically designed for building software that meets today's criteria for usability, scalability and cost effective deployment. Internet development environments render web pages; PowerVista Bridge renders beautiful database applications.

"We invite anyone facing the challenge of building new business software to download our free evaluation software. Work through the tutorial. Then, ask whether the same application could be built as quickly using other development tools" Mr. White encourages. "We are confident that your view of database application development will change after working with PowerVista Bridge."

Key Features:

- Comprehensive database application development environment features all popular screen controls, multiple database connectivity, report creation module and business graphics module;

- HTML-like scripting environment facilitates rapid development, deployment and maintenance of applications;

- Tool suite is extensible using DLL (1) See data link layer.

(2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs.
, ActiveX and COM connectivity;

- Complete demonstration application, tutorial and detailed on-line help shorten the learning curve.

System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. :

- Windows 95, 98 or NT

- 100 mHz or higher processor

- 32 meg or greater RAM

Pricing:

- $99 Single user version includes PowerVista database

- $2,999 Enterprise version includes connectivity to several popular databases and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network.  connectivity. Includes one year of support and maintenance.

PowerVista Software, Inc. is dedicated to providing tools to a business' internal experts for distilling their knowledge into new graphical business applications. PowerVista was incorporated in 1990 and is a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 based in Pine, Colorado Pine is an unincorporated town and a U.S. Post Office located in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The Pine Post Office has the ZIP Code 80470.[1] Geography
Pine is located at  (39.409937,-105.321980).
, about 45 miles southwest of Denver. PowerVista's newest product, PowerVista Bridge, has been in development for eight years, and has recently been released to the general market. The single-user version is available for $99. A free trial version can also be downloaded from the company's web site.

For more information, call (303)-838-2288, ext. 308.
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