February 26, 2009

Beginning February 1, 2009 Roman Simakov, Ph.D. joins SciDB project and will participate in development of world largest data warehouses for scientific purposes. Roman is the scientific director of Red Soft laboratory in Murom, and also teaches DBMS course at Murom Institute of Vladimir State University. Red Soft is the vendor of data warehousing solutions for banks and government organizations. We hope that scientific experience acquired by Roman when working on SciDB project will be applied in the future Red Soft products.

August 21, 2008

BroadView Software Inc. is a leading North American software developer that has specialized in broadcast information-management solutions for more than two decades. Its products provide television stations with an integrated solution to meet all their needs in program acquisition, ad sales, program scheduling, traffic, master control automation interfacing, accounts receivable and reporting. Its flexibility and history of providing customizations and enhancements for customers have made BroadView a leader in its field. BroadView's innovative, fully integrated approach also means substantial savings in staff time, which translates directly into ongoing operational benefits, month after month.

Red Soft Corporation is the supplier of database technology for BroadView Software Inc. since year 2007.

July 18, 2008

Red Soft Corporation announces immediate availability of Red Database 2.1.0.

The Red Database 2.1.0 kernel is based on Firebird 2.1 and supports all of its new features and extensions:

• Triggers for global database events
  
• Global Temporary Tables
• Recursive query support via Common Table Expressions
• New virtualized system tables for database monitoring
• and many other.

The Red Database 2.1.0 engine also contains the following new features above Firebird 2.1 baseline:

• Multi-threading architecture - SuperClassic server
• External stored procedures
• Stored procedures and triggers debugger
• Full-text search
• Improved security subsystem, providing the full set of tools for:

• authentication,
• fine-grained authorization controls, at row and field level,
• keeping detailed audit trail for users’ access to data,
• system and data integrity checking,
• analysis of security incidents.

New features in the security subsystem:

• Integrated cryptographic module
• Complete DDL operations access control
• Complete DML operations access control
• The roles assigned to a user have cumulative effect on his (her) access rights
• The roles can be defined globally for the server
• The support for access policies
• Multi-factor authentication
• Audit system with capability to save log in binary format and analyze it via SQL statements
• Access controls for database service functions (backup, consistency validation, etc)
• Security clean-up for deallocated memory
• Integrity checking for server files and data protection facilities
• Special tools for metadata and data integrity checking using digital signature

DBMS Red Database 2.1.0 is is currently being certified for compliance with FSTEC of Russia regulations for 5th class of data protection from unauthorized access and 4th level of control for the absence of undeclared capabilities.

July 15, 2008

Red Soft Corporation released the DBMS Red Database 2.1 Release Candidate 4. The distribution kit of Red Database 2.1 RC4 Community edition is available for free download and installation from our web site.

June 25, 2008

Red Soft Corporation released the DBMS Red Database 2.1 Release Candidate 3. The distribution kit of Red Database 2.1 RC3 Community edition is available for free download and installation from our web site.

May 19, 2008

On May 19th, 2008 Red Soft Corporation released the DBMS Red Database 2.1 for beta testing. The distribution kit of Red Database 2.1 Beta 4 Community edition is available for free download and installation from our web site.

April 8, 2008

Red Soft Corporation and OOO "Agora-Soft" announce release of a joint solution based on the enterprise open source DBMS Red Database, compliant with the requirements of the Guidelines of RF Federal Service for Technical and Export Control for Automated Systems, protection Class 1Г.

The "Astreja" software complex to ensure functioning of magistrature is meant to automate the legal case process, to establish electronic workflow, to maintain electronic archives of court decisions at a magistrate's workplace. The software complex ensures recording and accounting of criminal cases of private prosecution; criminal cases submitted with an indictment (criminal information), civil cases of adversary proceedings, orders of court; materials for administrative infractions; materials for judicial control, execution of decisions and sentences adjudicated by a magistrate.

April 4, 2008

In its traditional past year review, PC Magazine/RE announced DBMS "Red Database 2.0" to be the "Product of the year" in the "Application software" nomination.

"Russian software: Harvest 2007" covers not only newly developed items, but also released versions of familiar suites, including application software programs, system utility programs, and entertainment software.