"theKompany.com is pleased to announce the 0.5 release
of Rekall, a personal, programmable DBMS system for KDE. The
objective of this release is to add more database support, namely
direct MySQL and PostgreSQL, and to release the Python scripting
functions as well as fixing bugs. Our current timeline has a 1.0
release available in early October 2001. With Rekall you will be
able to quickly and easily build database applications using Rekall
forms and reports. A full complement of widgets means that
applications built in Rekall will be able to have the look and feel
of any other application. Rekall applications can be extended in
their functionality to perform virtually any task via embedded
Python as a scripting language.
Ever since the release of dBase many years ago, the idea of a
programmable DBMS has become increasingly popular. Major systems
have been written in applications like Paradox and MS Access. By
focusing on the database, users are able to leverage their business
knowledge into working applications. One of the limitations of the
aforementioned products is that their native database didn't scale
well or support multiple users very well. Rekall avoids this
problem by dispensing with a native database."
