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Inquiring minds would like to know more about this global financial services company and how quickly ANTs will be able to migrate the Sybase Database to Oracle’s.
This morning’s news release sheds some light:
ANTs Launches Pilot Application Migration Project With Global Financial Services Company
Tuesday September 18, 8:00 am ET
Compatibility Consortium Member Selects First Application to Migrate From Sybase to the Oracle Database
BURLINGAME, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Taking the next step in its aggressive product development plan, ANTs software inc. (OTCBB:ANTS – News) today announced it is beginning its first pilot project to migrate an application from Sybase to the Oracle database using the ANTs Compatibility Server(TM) (ACS). The application — selected by a charter member of the ANTs Compatibility Server Consortium — is a proprietary information management system used by this global financial services company’s institutional brokerage clients for the timely and efficient management of all trades, positions, and balances. The consortium member is dedicating technical resources to this project to assist in the migration process.
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“We are very excited to begin the first migration project with a member of our recently formed Compatibility Server Consortium, and over the next few months we look forward to successfully completing this important step towards addressing a critical industry need,” said Ari Kaplan, president of the Independent Oracle User Group and ANTs board member, who is managing the Compatibility Server Consortium. “The feedback we expect to receive from members of the consortium as they migrate their pilot applications will be invaluable, and will help shape the future of this exciting database virtualization technology.”
According to Kaplan, the ANTs approach is unique in that, with minimal or no changes, applications can be retargeted from Sybase to the Oracle database through the ANTs Compatibility Server. Stored procedures, queries, triggers, error codes, and other functionality from the Sybase application run natively on the ANTs Compatibility Server, which also connects natively to the new Oracle database. The ANTs Compatibility Server is based on the compatibility and advanced connectivity technologies developed over the past two years by ANTs for its flagship ANTs Data Server, and illustrates how these technologies can be applied to quickly migrate applications to any of the major enterprise databases from Oracle, Microsoft, or IBM.
Although today’s migration tools typically automate a significant portion of the effort required to migrate an application from one database to another, completing the remainder of the migration requires difficult, costly, and time-consuming manual efforts. The ANTs Compatibility Server, still under development, is designed to extend current migration tools to automate the entire process.
Ten Fortune 500 or equivalent companies, comprised of leading firms in financial services, travel, consumer goods, and other industry sectors, have been selected as charter members of the ANTs Compatibility Server Consortium. The consortium is working with ANTs to develop processes and programs for migrating pilot Sybase applications to the Oracle database using the ANTs Compatibility Server.
About the ANTs Compatibility Server (ACS)
The ANTs Compatibility Server is a “database virtualization” middleware layer which allows server side code (queries, stored procedures and triggers) from legacy databases to run natively and transparently against the new target database with minimal application rewriting and recompiling. The legacy application operates as if it were still communicating with the original legacy database, yet the new target database operates as if it were communicating with a native application. The first release of this virtualization server technology is focused on migrating Sybase applications to an Oracle database, although migrations from and to other databases are also planned.
ANTs software inc.
ANTs software inc. (OTCBB:ANTS – News), based in Silicon Valley, develops and sells the ANTs Data Server, an affordable, high-performance relational database. The company is developing the ANTs Compatibility Server, a database virtualization layer that enables application portability and database consolidation. 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 Compatibility Server, that the Compatibility Server 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 migrating applications using the Compatibility Server, 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.
Contact:
ANTs software inc.
Cesar Rojas, 650-931-0535
cesar.rojas@ants.com
or
Corman Communications, LLC
Patrick Corman, 650-326-9648
patrick@cormancom.com
The pesky, time consuming and expensive problems associated with database migration, database consolidation, database virtualization and database compatibility may become burdens of the past with the ANTS Compatibility Server (ACS). This article by Information Week’s Charles Babacock should be of keen interest not only to Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and Sybase–but also to shrewd investors as well.
A small database
vendor, Ants Software, is aligning its new database product, the Ants Compatibility Server, with Oracle (ORCL). It plans to assist Sybase users in migrating their database applications and database systems to Oracle.
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Filed under: Database Blogs
Blogs offer great opportunities to follow cutting edge trends, thought leaders and ideas.
Vertica Systems has launched a new multi-author blog, Database Column, that will be one to watch. The blog authors are luminary database architects and administrators, CIO’s and IT pros who will shed some light on the evolutions, emerging technologies and developments in the database field. Vertica Systems’ September 5 news release introduces their panel of blog contributors:
- Don Haderle, pictured, technical advisory board member, ANTs Software. Haderle is the father of the IBM DB2 relational database management system. He served as vice president and CTO of the company’s $4 billion information management segment. Haderle secured more than 50 patents and disclosures across all areas of database management while at IBM;
- Dr. Mitch Cherniack, associate professor of computer science at Brandeis University. Cherniack has published numerous research papers about query optimization, profile-driven data management and stream processing systems;Dr. David DeWitt, professor of computer sciences at University of Wisconsin. DeWitt developed the first relational database system benchmark in the early 1980s and has penned more than 100 technical publications about database management;
- Dr. Jerry Held, CEO of the Held Consulting Group. Held is chairman of the Vertica board of directors, chairman of Software Development Technologies, and serves on the boards of Business Objects, Openwave, MetaMatrix and Mirapoint. Previously, he led Oracle Corporation’s server product division, helping the company grow to $6 billion annually.
- Dr. Samuel Madden, assistant professor at the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at MIT. Madden’s past projects include the TinyDB system for data collection from sensor networks and the Telegraph adaptive query processing engine; and,
- Dr. Stan Zdonik, professor of computer science at Brown University, where he has led the Advanced Data Management Research Group since 1983. He has written over 100 research papers focusing on a variety of database technology issues.
Andy Palmer, co-founder and CEO of Vertica Systems discusses the Database Column blog and says, “For the past 30 years, innovation has been slow in the database industry. Now a combination of rapidly growing databases and increasingly complex business queries is forcing the industry to change rapidly. This blog will be an invaluable resource for those who need to see what technology is on the horizon, and what they can do now to better store, query and manage their data.”
This will certainly be a blog to watch!
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Filed under: ANTs Software
This blog is dedicated to those things that are disruptive in technologies and thought.
And as our name might imply, we are interested in what is probably one of the most disruptive database technologies around. ANTs Software is the leading innovator in database consolidation–and has technology that is needed not only by Oracle, IBM, SAP and other database vendors, but that is currently in use by Cadbury-Schweppes, the US Navy’s DDG 1000 Destroyer Program, a Fortune 500 retailer and other enterprise-level adapters.
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