Red Soft strategy presentation and Q&A

Nikolay Samofatov, Chief Technology Officer

RED SOFT CORPORATION

Situation: major organizations are using Firebird for non business-critical applications

• Military and special servicesWorldwide trend is to integrate military projects with civil products and services

• Public sectorPolicies to prefer Open Source products in many countries. Open development

process requirements for critical infrastructure projects.

• EnterprisesLarge enterprises tend to fall under strict procurement rules similar to public sector

Policies appear to be very favorable towards Open Source products in organizations.

What formal criteria prevents Firebird from being used to build Tier 1 (business critical) applications?

Procurement rules

• Technical requirements

• Security regulations compliance requirements

• Service level requirements• On-site support for closed-circuit applications

• Response time requirements

• Organizational requirements• Manufacturer Authorization Forms

• Warranties

• Cross-certification

How do we deliver against the requirements of major organizations?

• Partnerships• Hardware makers

• Software developers

• Support organizations

• Own R&D effort• Security

• Enterprise functionality

• Third line support

• Organizational support• Legal

• Certification

• Project management, consulting, outsourcing services

The policy for the engine source code availability

• Publish source code and patches against base engine code base at the release time

• Collaborate with the key members of the project during specification and implementation phasesWe announce the functionality we work on in mailing lists and at

conferences, so interested parties may join

• Review and submit the code for inclusion into the tree in compliance with the Firebird’s rigorous code quality standards

Red Database 2.0 features

• Unified Windows and UNIX installers• Integrated packaging• NBackup improvements• Profiling API• Replication, Publication, Mirroring

• Foundation for data warehousing and systems integration

Red Database 2.1 planned functionality

• SuperClassic engine architecture• Security model overhaul to conform to international

and country-specific security standards, e.g. ISO/IEC 17799:2005

• Java and C/C++ Stored Procedures• Stored Procedure debugger• Full Text Search

Other Red Soft products

• Red ControlFlexible Firebird-based knowledge management system

• Red WarehouseBI toolset based on Open Source technology and Firebird.

Mondrian is used as the MDX engine.

• Red Olap NavigatorGWT-based user-friendly front-end for the BI system. Source

code to be open soon.

Questions and Contacts

RED SOFT CORPORATION

www.red-soft.biz

Nikolay Samofatov, Chief Technology Officer

nikolay.samofatov@red-soft.biz

Office Phone: +7 495 721 35 37