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Press Release
FROM: Servoy, USA
CONTACT: Brenda Duncan, Servoy, USA, (805) 218-9790 or (805) 529-6299 x111
For Immediate Release
Servoy and SQL Anywhere Bests Oracle Forms, Oracle JDeveloper, Eclipse, .Net and Magic in Development Tools 2006 Contest
Amersfoort, The Netherlands March 30, 2006 Today Array Publications, producers of 12 magazines for the software market, announced the winners of the Development Tools 2006 (formerly the "RAD Race"). Servoy, B.V., a Rapid Application Development (RAD) software company took one of the top winning positions in the race. All of the entrants are required to build a business solution within 48 hours, containing many complex business rules and logic. This was Servoy's first attempt at competing in the contest and the 2-man Servoy team was very pleased with the outcome.
Servoy is a relatively new technology platform, yet managed to beat out the competitions development environments including: Magic, Oracle Forms, various Java frameworks and a .Net based environment. Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy, B.V. says: "We are very proud to receive this recognition of our technology. The race was very difficult as it consists of building a complete business application with many complex business rules and then deploying it both as a back-office and a web-enabled front-office application. The reason we placed high in the finals is that Servoy does not excel in just one aspect of application development, but is strong on all sides of the application, especially ease of deployment."
Servoy is a rich Java front end Graphical User Interface (GUI) that can connect to almost any backend database, including multiple databases (or multiple databases) at the same time. Additionally, it can deploy to multiple outputs (web, mobile, desktop, etc.) all with the same code. These native capabilities gave the Servoy team a huge head start over most of the competitors in the field. Servoy's CEO also notes that Servoy ships with a copy of SQL Anywhere database, to make it simple for the customer to write an application. SQL Anywhere is the market-leading database and synchronization product from iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase. Says Aleman: "Thanks to tight integration with SQL Anywhere we had a solid database to run on and with the iAnywhere PowerDesigner we were able to start off with a very well designed data model." According to Rick van der Lans, president of the jury, this is a point where many teams failed.
One of the comments from the jury was that with most tools it was difficult to produce nice looking layouts. They praised Servoy's native, modern looking user interfaces. Another aspect that the jury liked is that with Servoy you don't have to code pages of Java code to implement your business rules; rather you can solve this with simple JavaScript statements and Servoy's built-in extensive library of functions. One of the conclusions of the jury was that they see a large potential for the Java-4GL's (such as Servoy): a mix of the productivity of the classic 4Gl environments but with the extensibility, scalability and acceptance of Java based products.
The RAD Race (recently renamed to Development Tools 2006) has been held since 1997 and focuses on a real-life solutions. This year's event was based on creating a conference planning solution. The 2-person teams are essentially locked into a room for 2 days and must create the solution from scratch. They may use any software and hardware they choose to bring or that is made available to them at the competition. The programming is fast and furious - but with an eye towards social IT consciousness and a lot of fun.
For more information, please visit www.servoy.com.
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