Westside Corporation Releases HotRAD Development System; Economic Downturn Creates Demand for Productivity Tools That Lower Costs and Speeds Development of Web Applications.Business/High Tech Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2001 The integration of the power of a mature database into a web application is what Westside' founders set out to build when they left Microsoft two years ago. Westside's HotRAD is now the comprehensive solution for developers who need to build and deploy dynamic web applications quickly and economically. Fully 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. HotRAD is a fully relational database. It offers multiple tables within an application and allows users to define relationships between tables, such as between products and categories. The HotRAD product is aware of these relationships and makes it easy to create forms appropriate to the relationships, such as a page that lists the products for a given category. HotRAD includes a full set of server objects that allow the user to query and update data, create and alter tables and files, send email and issue requests to remote Web servers. This scripting allows even more powerful customization and extension than can be done in Access. The product is available from the company's website at www.westside.com. The Developers Experience "HotRAD lets us complete jobs quicker with fewer development resources, which is a definite advantage in the current environment," said Bill Isenberger, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Axis Studios, a Seattle-based web development firm. "HotRAD is now our first choice for new projects." Giving Developers a Competitive Edge HotRAD's proven approach to building and deploying web applications eliminates the need for multiple teams of specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. developers writing custom code that must be tested, integrated and debugged. On average, HotRAD applications require fewer lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. and smaller development and testing teams, which translates into shorter time to market and reduced costs. HotRAD stores its data in Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. , a robust server engine. This makes HotRAD very powerful and capable of storing and managing larger amounts of data. HotRAD scales to many concurrent users In computer science, the number of concurrent users for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people using the resource at the same time. and large data sets with ease. "We want to give web developers a competitive edge," said George Snelling Snelling can refer to: People
Security with a Web Database Application HRAD's integrated security architecture makes it easy to share your Web application with just the users you authorize To empower another with the legal right to perform an action. The Constitution authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce. authorize v. to officially empower someone to act. (See: authority) and give them just the permissions they need. The security architecture encompasses secure log on, assigning users to groups, and setting group access permissions to all the resources in a Web application, including database records, files, and scripts. Permissions can be assigned broadly across the entire application or narrowly to individual records, all using the same simple dialog. All aspects of an HRAD HRAD Hyperreactive Airway Disease HRAD Human Rights Approach to Development application automatically "does the right thing" based on the current user's permissions. HRAD requires no coding, for example, to prompt for a log on when users click from a public page to a restricted page, or to show an "Edit" button on a form only if the current user has edit permissions. Pricing and Availability HotRAD is available now from the company's Website at http://www.westside.com. Users can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Volume pricing is available from the Westside sales team at sales@westside.com. About Westside Westside Corporation is the developer of HotRAD, the industry leading hosted rapid application development (H-RAD) platform. HotRAD includes a hosted rapid application development (H-RAD) toolset, a programmable Dataweb engine, and reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us HotBlock application modules. HotRAD gives 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. and JavaScript developers everything they need to build dynamic, high value web applications faster than ever before. |
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