UK based Ladybridge Systems today announced at the International
Spectrum Conference in Long Beach, California the availability of the
OpenQM multivalue database product on a PDA running Windows Mobile 5.0
or the older Windows CE.

Bringing OpenQM to the PDA opens a new market for multivalue
applications. This is essentially a single user version of the
standard OpenQM product, including outgoing network connectivity via
QMNet or user written socket processing to simplify synchoronisation
with a main business server.

The PDA version of OpenQM will be available to selected users for an
eight week beta test with a planned full commercial release on 1 May
2007.

The same new release also adds support for the PowerPC version of the
Mac running OS X. The Intel version will follow.

For more information see www.openqm.com

On Mar 7, 5:14 pm, "Martin Phillips" <MartinPhill... (AT) ladybridge (DOT) com>
wrote:
I've seen this in action, and it looks S W E E T !! .... the showbag
says it all "Taking Multivalue where it has never been before"

(mind you, it is warm & dark in his pocket, and he keeps the dell
(doll?) wrapped up in black leather - could be just as well :-)

Well done & congratulations !!!

Would there be a problem with this OpenQM on a PDA while the server DB
is not OpenQM (let's say D3, UniVerse, etc.)?

Martin Phillips wrote:

Went to the website to get info on being a beta tester. Maybe the first test
is to find the info. If so, I've failed. What's the procedure?

Ed

"Martin Phillips" <MartinPhillips (AT) ladybridge (DOT) com> wrote

It does say "contact Ladybridge Systems". Perhaps there's a clue
there?


Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems.

Hi
It sounds like a really great move. I shall look at PDA's with far mor
interest now. The user interface would need to be neat and the ability to
transfer to a main database essential - I am assuming the whole box of
tricks is on the PDA and is not trying to WiFi or something similar.
Good Luck
Peter McMurray

"Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote

I do a lot of work with Windows Mobile for barcode scanning in
warehouses. The concept of Pick running 'on the scanner' is
interesting to me. At the moment we use a Telnet (Twinclient) and RF
connection to D3 and the applications run there. I must say I'm rather
dubious about RF networks, for one application were its for a despatch
scan thay seem reliable, but then the users are confined to a small
area. For another the users walk all around a warehouse and I have no
end of mysterious 'partial' transactions, sessions that end abruptly.
Eliminating the RF component could make things better if...
It can update the server when connected to the charging cradle?
When the scanner is on the cradle you set up a connection using
Microsft Active sync. You can copy files (from the PC, havent tried
from the scanner). I'm sure batch like interface with files dropped
into directories would work, could an OODBC type connection be set up
thru the cradle?

Another possibility is to put a 'canned' system onto the scanner that
can then talk to the central database. How good is the connectivitiy
to databases other than OpenQM? Can I update say SQL server or Oracle
from OpenQM on windows mobile?

Jeremy Thomson

To some extent, a composite reply...

The PDA version of QM is a single user version of the full product.
Therefore it includes QMNet for easy synchronisation with a server
system but the processing is handled on the PDA itself. Release 2.5-0
also introduces the Virtual File System which effectively enables file
system access to be trapped by a user written handler that can then
action the request in any appropriate way. This could easily include a
socket connection to a server process on a "alien" database. We have
demonstrated with for access to UniVerse and we are aware of a D3
server program under development.

The PDA product has caused a lot of interest here at the Spectrum
show. We already have a dealer busy migrating two applications to the
PDA and from what we here at Spectrum, more will follow soon.


Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems.

Martin,

You are going to see a lot of interest at the DesignBais conference in April
as well. I for one will be paying you (or your representative) a visit.

Jeff

"Martin Phillips" <MartinPhillips (AT) ladybridge (DOT) com> wrote

Glen

While I have no objection to OpenQM on a PDA, I've been getting data
from D3 into a PDA using web services and mv.Net. Works fine and no need
for a DB on the PDA at all.

Sholom

Glen B wrote: