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Caspio Frees Web-Based Database Apps


Bridge SOHO builds and hosts database applications for free

By Alex Handy
November 15, 2006 — 
Caspio has eliminated the toll on its bridge. The company’s Web-based database-driven application construction framework, Bridge SOHO, is now available for free to users.

The free version does not include support for Web services and forces the placement of a Caspio logo in the resulting embeddable Web object. With SOHO, developers are restricted to building graphical interfaces to databases, such as online retail shopping carts or polling software. The full version of the tool offers methods to expose these applications as Web services, and to integrate data streams from external services as well.

Frank Zamani, CEO of Caspio, said that enterprises that upgrade to the full version of Caspio can opt to host the Caspio framework on their own servers. For the rest of the world, however, Caspio applications are created and hosted entirely on Caspio’s servers. Developers use an AJAX-based point-and-click interface to construct their applications, then insert a small snippet of code into their own sites that reference the end product. The whole process is similar to that of embedding Youtube.com content or other externally hosted data within an HTML document, said Zamani.

A FAMILIAR FACE
“We copied Microsoft Access as much as we could in the user interface,” said Zamani. The reason for this, he said, is that most of his company’s customers are already familiar with building Access-based database applications. “People create their applications in this interface using the point-and-click wizard, and at the end they say they want to deploy this on their site. Then it gives them three or four lines of code and they paste that into their Web site. All interactions are forwarded to our servers,” said Zamani.

Caspio also hosts the databases that drive these applications. The company uses Microsoft SQL Server to handle this data. Enterprise customers that upgrade to the full version of Caspio Bridge can step outside of the online construction tool by pasting in their own Web services code. On the other side of the coin, applications built with the full commercial version of Caspio Bridge can also be exposed as Web services themselves.

Aside from these Web services facilities, said Zamani, Caspio Bridge SOHO offers the entire range of functions offered by the full commercial edition. That means users can automatically translate their applications into other languages, such as French and German. In addition, Caspio Bridge applications support SSL encryption and numerous styles for customizing the look and feel of the end product. Caspio’s free service can be tried out at www.caspio.com.


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