Ted Kenney

In a major upgrade to its software as a service (SaaS) that connects companies with their field workforces, Argentina’s Movimiento ATM has integrated the Perst™ Lite Java embedded database from McObject® in client software for roaming employees’ BlackBerry, Nokia and other popular smartphones. The use of Perst Lite helps keep users up-to-date through faster data access, and also enhances client software reliability, said Nicolas Rodrigo, Movimiento ATM general manager. Perst Lite also slashed the development time of Movimiento’s new Salesforce Solution product by replacing “homegrown” data management code with a proven commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded database system, he said. Perst Lite jives with BlackBerry, Nokia and other popular smartphones More and more com... (more)

Off-the-shelf Mobile Phone Hosts Java Embedded Database Benchmark

In what is likely the first-ever database benchmark conducted on an off-the-shelf mobile phone, McObject® has successfully deployed its TestIndex application on T-Mobile’s Android-based G1smartphone, to measure performance of the SQLite embedded database alongside McObject’s open source Perst™ embedded database on typical data management functions. The comparison showed that gaps in dat... (more)

McObject's Perst v4.0 Broadens Scope of Java & .NET Database

McObject has released Perst 4.0, the latest upgrade of its open source, object-oriented embedded database for Java and .NET. Version 4.0 greatly expands Perst’s usefulness in a broad range of applications by enabling it to add persistence to any object—including objects created by other programs, those for which source code is unavailable, and even objects created in different programmin... (more)

McObject & MPC Data Partner in European Embedded Markets

McObject has announced a partnership with UK-based MPC Data. In the alliance, MPC Data will distribute McObject’s eXtremeDB™ and Perst™ embedded database software, and provide services surrounding the technology, in key European embedded development markets including automotive, mobile computing and phones, consumer electronics, medical products, industrial control, netcom/telecom and re... (more)