SOFTWARE AG SELLS UK ADABAS SERVICES COMPANY.Software AG UK this week sold QVF Ltd, a UK services support subsidiary for its Adabas relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. , to Logical Holding Ltd, as part of a move to focus on core areas and raise cash for acquisitions. The company said that the sale of QVF is not a sign of a shift away from its relational database and says it is currently working on improvements to Adabas, including enhanced search capabilities and matrix handling. At the same time, however, the company said it will put the undisclosed proceeds from the sale into further acquisitions in what it considers its core area of e-business built from its EntireX middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a and Bolero bolero (bəlâr`ō), national dance of Spain, introduced c.1780 by Sebastian Zerezo, or Cerezo. Of Moroccan origin, it resembles the fandango. applications. The company is also planning a new XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. object database called Odyssey, which the company plans to release in the third quarter of next year. |
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