Anyone At All Using Valentina?

[Mark Brownell]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 09:17  AM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> Valentina is a stand-alone, requiring no server, therefore ideally 
> suited to CD-ROM distributed products.
>
> It is easier to set up than mySQL.
>
> And it is blazingly fast so it wins out in situations where you need a 
> local, single-user data store to support  Rev app that is not going to 
> be networked.
>
> I had my "Web app" glasses on when I evaluated it.
>
> But one thing: as far as I can tell, I don't have to pay a dime to 
> distribute mySQL-based apps unless I need to deliver the mySQL 
> database with it, which is something nobody would do except for a 
> pretty high-end enterprise solution which was being deployed off a 
> local server.

Add to that Valentina's ability to store blob data and encrypt it using 
Blowfish encryption. You can store any binary data as blob to protect 
delivery data. I use this for DRM of externally distributed data that 
can be read by standalone reader software.

Mark