• E-mail
• Print
• Comment
• Font Size
• Digg
• del.icio.us
• Discuss article

ANTs to Show New Compatibility Server at SQL Server Association Summit

Posted on: Thursday, 13 September 2007, 09:00 CDT

Lifting the veil from its pioneering database virtualization activities, ANTs software inc. (OTCBB:ANTS), will give attendees at the upcoming Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit a first look of its ANTs Compatibility Server (ACS) for SQL Server. ACS for SQL Server is designed to substantially reduce the effort required to migrate applications to SQL Server. ANTs will demonstrate an early version of this technology in booth #305 at the 2007 PASS Community Summit being held September 18-21 at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado.

"We have successfully demonstrated ACS for Oracle and are poised to begin first customer pilot migrations using that product. This concept demonstration of ACS for SQL Server is the first time the public will have the chance to see migration to SQL Server," said Rao Yendluri, vice present of engineering. "Based on core technology from the ANTs Data Server, the Compatibility Server represents an exciting new approach to database migration and consolidation."

The PASS Community Summit is the largest user-run SQL Server and business intelligence conference, drawing Microsoft SQL Server and BI experts from around the world.

Based on compatibility and advanced connectivity technologies developed by ANTs, the ANTs Compatibility Server is database virtualization middleware through which application calls to the database are translated, allowing applications to be retargeted from one database to another. ANTs' first product based on these technologies is a Sybase-to-Oracle version of the ANTs Compatibility Server.

The ANTs approach is unique in that legacy applications connect natively through the ANTs Compatibility Server to the new database with minimal to no changes. The stored procedures and queries from the application run natively on the ANTs Compatibility Server, which also connects natively with the new target database.

The Compatibility Server is designed to significantly reduce migration complexity, effort, and cost by:

Automating the processes that current migration tools cannot, saving time and effort;

Reducing hand-coding and manual error checking. Many man-months or even years can be required for this, and hand-coding can introduce errors and uncertainty in the process, requiring a significant QA effort to ensure correctness;

Avoiding costly application rewrites and recompiles by providing continued use of native access libraries (JDBC, ODBC, Oracle OCI and Sybase DB-LIB or CT-LIB); and

Automating the translation of all the database objects.

In addition to automating the migration of tables, views, synonyms, constraints and triggers, stored procedures and other server-side application code can be migrated easily and without the difficulty of maintaining computer-generated code.

More information about the ANTs Compatibility Server is available on the ANTs web site at www.ants.com/acs.

ANTs software inc.

ANTs software inc. (OTCBB:ANTS), based in Silicon Valley, develops and sells the ANTs Data Server, an affordable, high-performance relational database that is compatible with popular databases. The company's mission is to help customers reduce hardware, software, and development costs by providing exceptional database price/performance. For more information on ANTs Software, visit www.ants.com.

This press release is neither an offer to sell, nor a solicitation of offers to purchase securities. This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements concerning product development activities and sales and licensing activities. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, are sometimes identified by words of condition such as "should,""may," or "intends," and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, known and unknown, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those intended or anticipated. Such risks include, without limitation: the possibility that the market will not respond positively to the new version of the Compatibility Server, that the proof of concept will not be developed into a marketable product, challenges arising from competition, problems encountered in commercializing the ANTs technology, potential of undetected infringing technology or non-infringing competitive technologies, difficulties experienced in product development, roadblocks experienced in sales and marketing activities, longer than expected sales processes, difficulties in recruiting knowledgeable and experienced personnel, possible problems in porting applications to the Company's database, potential problems in protecting the Company's intellectual property, and problems securing the necessary financing to continue operations. Further information concerning these and other risks is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2007. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.

Source: Business Wire

More News in this Category