Question about Valentina

[Trevor DeVore]

On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Lynch, Jonathan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am investigating Velentina, but their website makes me a bit nervous
> about using the program. Many part of the website do not work - that
> cannot be a good sign for a software company, and I still haven't found
> an Email for contacting the company.

They just revamped their website so there are a couple of things that 
still don't work right.  It coincided with the 2.0 release of their 
database.

> So my question is this - is Valentina a reliable database, and is the
> company, Paradigma, a reliable company?

Paradigma is a very reliable company.  They are growing right but the 
head developer, Ruslan, is very involved in the mailing list.  The 
Valentina database has some quirks but I've used it in a number of 
projects without too many problems.

> Also, does anyone know if their EULA allows you to freely distribute
> software that contains embedded Valentina?

Yes, you pay the one time fee for the database and then you can 
distribute it with your programs.

Depending on your needs you might want to check out altSQLite as well.  
If you don't need to encrypt your database structure this is a great 
solution.  It is cheaper and runs on linux as well.

<http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altSQLiteCover/default.htm>

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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com