eGenix mxODBC Zope DA 2.1.0 GA
Introduction
The eGenix mxODBC Zope DA™ allows you to easily connect your Zope or Plone CMS installation to just about any database backend on the market today, giving you the reliability of the commercially supported eGenix product mxODBC and the flexibility of the ODBC standard as middle-tier architecture.
The mxODBC Zope Database Adapter is highly portable, just like Zope itself and provides a high performance interface to all your ODBC data sources, using a single well-supported interface on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other platforms.
This makes it ideal for deployment in ZEO Clusters and Zope hosting environments where stability and high performance are a top priority, establishing an excellent basis and scalable solution for your Plone CMS.
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News
We are pleased to announce a new version 2.1.0 of our mxODBC Zope/Plone Database Adapter product.Updated Plone Support
In this new release, we have focused on a simplified zc.buildout deployment as used in Plone 4.x and the latest Zope 2.13 releases.
The mxODBC Zope DA is now again compatible with all recent Plone versions. Please see the mxODBC Zope DA documentation for details on how to install the product for use in Plone.
For the full list of features, please see the mxODBC Zope DA feature list.
Enhanced ODBC Driver Support
We have also updated the integrated mxODBC Python Extension to the latest 3.2 release, which includes a number of important new features and ODBC driver compatibility enhancements:
- Added support for the DataDirect ODBC manager on Linux which is used by several data warehouse database backends
- Added MS SQL Server ODBC Driver 1.0 for Linux support
- Added Teradata support
- Added Netezza support
- Switched to unixODBC 2.3.1+ API for better 64-bit support on Linux
- Enhanced Oracle Instance Client support
- Enhanced IBM DB2 driver support
- Enhanced Sybase ASE driver support
- Enhanced FreeTDS ODBC driver support
- Enhanced PostgreSQL driver support
- Enhanced generic support for many other ODBC compatible databases
Please see the mxODBC 3.2 release announcement for a complete set of changes available in the underlying mxODBC 3.2 package used in mxODBC Zope/Plone DA 2.1.
Lowered Overall Licensing Costs
Starting with version 2.1, we have also simplified our license terms to
clarify the situation on multi-core and virtual machines. In most cases,
you no longer need to purchase more than one license per Zope/Plone
instance, if you are running on a multi-core processor or virtual
machine, scaling down the overall license costs significantly compared
to earlier mxODBC Zope DA releases.
Minor other changes
- Error screens have been changed to plain text after the recent hot fix which disabled showing HTML in error messages.
- The "Security" tab now also works in Zope 2.13.
Upgrading
Users are encouraged to upgrade to this latest mxODBC Zope/Plone DA
release to benefit from the new features and updated ODBC driver
support.
We have taken special care not to introduce backwards incompatible
changes, making the upgrade experience as smooth as possible.
For upgrade purchases, we will give out 20% discount coupons going from mxODBC Zope DA 1.x to 2.1 and 50% coupons for upgrades from mxODBC 2.x to 2.1. After upgrade, use of the original license from which you upgraded is no longer permitted.
Please contact the eGenix.com Sales Team with your existing license serials for details for an upgrade discount coupon.
If you want to try the new release before purchace, you can request 30-day evaluation licenses by visiting our web-site or writing to sales@egenix.com, stating your name (or the name of the company) and the number of eval licenses that you need.Downloads
Please visit the eGenix mxODBC Zope DA product page for downloads, instructions on installation and documentation of the packages
More Information
For more information on the eGenix.com Python products, licensing and download instructions, please write to sales@egenix.com.
Enjoy !
Marc-Andre Lemburg, eGenix.com