[DB-SIG] [ANN] Schevo 2006 June Software Release

[Matthew Scott]

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Schevo 2006 June Software Release
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Orbtech, L.L.C. and the Schevo team are pleased to announce the  
availability
of the 2006 June software release of Schevo and related support  
packages.

Details and installation information are available at:

   http://schevo.org/trac/wiki/SoftwareRelease-2006-06

General information about Schevo is available at:

   http://schevo.org/


Upgrades in this release
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* Schevo 3.0b2


New packages in this release
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* SchevoDot 1.0a1
* SchevoGears 1.0a1
* SchevoGtk 1.0a1
* SchevoSql 1.0a1
* SchevoWeb 1.0a1
* SchevoXml 1.0a1


What is Schevo
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Schevo is a next-generation DBMS that focuses on the following:

* **Rapid Development**: Schevo includes features to make it easy and  
fun to
   create even the most complex of databases. Not only is the schema  
syntax
   easy to write and understand, you can also quickly place initial  
values in
   your schema that are required by your database, and use the same  
syntax to
   create sets of sample data to use during development.

* **User Interface Generation**: Schevo provides user interface  
toolkits that
   take advantage of the richness of the database schema. You can use  
the
   full-featured Schevo Navigator to interact with your database without
   writing a single line of code outside of your database schema. A  
PyQt-based
   toolkit is already available, and PyGtk and TurboGears toolkits  
are in the
   works.

* **Rich Schema Definition**: The schema for a Schevo database is  
written in
   concise, easy-to-read Python code. Not only does the schema  
describe how
   information in the database is structured, but also defines all  
transactions
   and rules that ensure database integrity.

* **Automated Schema Evolution**: Once a Schevo database is deployed  
and is
   used to store valuable data, you will inevitably make further  
changes to the
   structure of the database. Schevo assists you in this task and  
makes it easy
   to restructure a database and facilitate the migration of data  
from one
   schema version to the next.

* **Transaction Based**: Schevo is designed from the ground up to  
protect your
   data. All changes to a Schevo database must be done using  
transactions, and
   Schevo ensures that those transactions always leave the database in a
   consistent state.

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Matthew Scott
mscott at springfieldtech.com