Revelation Software Purchases Freedombase Web Ready from Freedomsoft

Revelation Software has announced that it has purchased Freedombase Web Ready, a Web development suite from Freedomsoft, for inclusion into its OpenInsight database development product. Freedombase Web Ready represents a quick and easy way to add Web front ends to existing OpenInsight applications, thereby providing a cost-effective means of rejuvenating existing or legacy systems. Freedomsoft has offices in New South Wales, Australia.

"Today’s software user expects to be able to run applications in a browser, whether from a PC or mobile devices,” stated Mike Ruane, president, Revelation Software, in making the announcement. “By purchasing the Freedombase product, we’re able to give our developers and users the most efficient path for doing so.”

During a roundtable of about a dozen of Revelation's VARs and developers held in October 2007 at the company's Westwood, NJ, headquarters, Ruane told DBTA, it became clear that “one of the capabilities they really wanted improved upon inside of OpenInsight was the Web publishing functionality.” According to Ruane, “We have very good Web database capabilities,” but when it comes to applications in OpenInsight and moving them easily to the Web, he said, “we could do it - but it was very crude. It was technology that is almost 8 or 10 years old now.”

Revelation began to explore possible solutions, said Ruane. “We looked around and we saw that Freedomsoft had done an incredible job with what they had done.” They have provided the capability to take an existing OpenInsight application and move it to the Web without changing forms or changing code, Ruane explained.

Revelation plans to rebrand the purchased Freedombase product as “WebOI” in order to eliminate any confusion between the two products. Revelation is in the process of tightly integrating the acquired product with its software and will have that ready for OpenInsight 8.1 which is expected to be released in June of this year, said Ruane.

Further information about Revelation can be found at www.revelation.com. More information about Freedomsoft can be found at www.freedombase.com.