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This document lists our products and platforms, classified as follows:

· Supported - These are the ones that we actually sell and support.

· Unsupported - These are either experimental products, or else versions of our supported products running on platforms that we have not yet tested adequately.

· Trial - These are limited (32-bit) versions of some of our supported products, not intended for production use

· Discontinued - These are products that we no longer support

· Appliances - These are products sold as hardware+software bundles

Products

Platforms

VectorStar is available on both 32 and 64-bit CPUs, and on Linux, Windows, and Unix operating systems (not all platform combinations are supported, however, and some features and limitations are platform-specific).

Here is a rough categorization:

· x32/WIN is good for personal use on laptops, PDAs, and even WIN-CE based cell phones

· x32/LNX is not supported

· x64/WIN is good for flexible, multi-faceted servers which support a large variety of data types and functionalities (such as biometric querying)

· x64/LNX is better for "workhorse" servers as, ceteris paribus, I/O is likely to be twice as fast than in x64/WIN

· x64/UNX is a good candidate for databases with extreme numbers of objects (i.e., tables, columns, UDTs, SPs, etc.-- this does not mean rows)

Trial Downloads

A limited TRIAL x32/WIN version will be soon available for download by the general public from the Download page. It will come by default with an evaluation key that expires at midnight of the Sunday of the download week (Sunday 12am GMT-6:00). Please contact us if you need an extended period trial key.

We will also provide TRIAL x64/LNX and x64/WIN versions for download by qualified interested parties. These versions will not be available for download by the general public. Please contact us if you are interested in evaluating one.

Purchase

Please refer to the Community/Commercial Partners page for info on resellers, distributors, OEMs, and how to purchase our products in your area.

Nomenclature

The nomenclature for our products is structured as follows:

· Family id, followed by a blank,

· optional Extended Product id, Version id, followed by a blank,

· CPU Architecture id, followed by a slash,

· Operating System Kind id, followed by a slash,

· Operating System Brand id

Thus, the following product name:

VectorStar 2.1 x32/WIN/XP

designates version 2.1 of our trial VectorStar DBMS product for the Windows XP 32-bit platform. While:

VectorStar FT2.2BETA1 x64/LNX/RHOS

designates the first BETA release (BETA1) of version 2.2 of our Fault Tolerant (FT) VectorStar DBMS product for the Linux (LNX) OpenSuse & RedHat 64-bit platforms.

Documentation

Product documentation (including installation guides) is available from the Doc page.

Product Availability List

Extended Products

· Standard Product

· Fault Tolerant Product , FT

· GPU Appliance Product, GPU

Supported Platforms

VectorStar x64/LNX/RHOS

The current GA version for our Standard product on Linux (RedHat|OpenSuse) is 2.0. The latest BETA version is 2.1BETA3.31.

The current BETA version for our Fault Tolerant product on Linux (RedHat|OpenSuse) is 2.2BETA1.02. There are no GA versions of this product yet.

VectorStar x64/WIN/SRVR

The current GA version for Windows Server (2003|2008) is 2.0. The latest BETA version is 2.1BETA3.31.

There are no versions of our Fault Tolerant product for this platform yet.

VectorStar x64/WIN/XP

The current GA version for Windows XP is 2.0. The latest Beta version is 2.1BETA3.31.

No extended products are available for this platform.

Unsupported Platforms

VectorStar x64/UNX/FreeBSD

FreeBSD is not yet supported directly, but it will soon be a major Supported Platform for VectorStar. In the meantime, it can be configured to run VectorStar x64/LNX binaries by the standard procedure used to enable the execution of Linux applications.

For BSD 5.2.1, the following changes to configuration files might be enough:

In file /etc/rc.conf add:

linux_enable="YES"

In file /etc/fstab add:

linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0

VectorStar x32/WIN/CE

VectorStar should run on PocketPCs running Windows CE 4.0 (PocketPC 2003) or later. It might require some slight configuration adjustments.

VectorStar x32/UNX/OSX

VectorStar should run on Mac OS X 10.3 (PowerPC|Intel) or later, but it will likely require some (minor?) tweaks.

Trial Versions

All trial versions are unsupported.

VectorStar x32/WIN/XP

The current TRIAL version for Windows XP is 2.1.

Discontinued

VectorStar x64/UNX/SOLARIS

If you have a serious interest in acquiring a Sun Solaris OS version of VectorStar, please contact us.

Appliances

All our appliances are based on commodity servers with 64-bit x86-64 CPUs. Currently, only the "pizza-box" (1U) form factor is available (several different form factors will be available soon, each designated by a different Extended Product id).

VectorWare F1 WIN/2008

2x4 x64 CPU, 64GB RAM, 2x1TB HD, 1U pizza-box form factor.

VectorWare GP

2x4 x64 CPU, 2xNVIDIA CUDA CPU, 64GB RAM, 8x1TB HD, tower form factor. This product is scheduled to be available in 1Q 2010.

Platform-specific Capabilities and Limitations

CPU Architecture

VectorStar x64

PERL5 REGEXes, plus some biometric, R and multimedia libraries are not yet available in 64-bit format.