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In this Episode

• Testimonial of the Month
• Windows 7 Support
• EQL Appliance and MS SQL
• Fancy New Demo Video
• Other New Features and Fixes

Testimonial of the Month

First of all, we've been collecting testimonials from some of you over the last little while based on your (hopefully positive) experiences with our product. Here's one of our favourites so far, from Dennis at Healthcare DR Solutions:

The Microsoft Access hosting services that your company offers have been a miracle for my business. I was at the end of a lengthy Microsoft Access 2003 database development project for one of my clients, when I placed a follow-up phone call to my clients Internet Service Provider. The Internet Service Provider previously guaranteed my client that they could host a Microsoft Access 2003 database and the users did not need to have the Microsoft Access software loaded to access the database, the users would just need a web browser. At the end of that follow-up phone call I was scrambling because the Internet Service Provider said that they no longer offer that hosting service and my client wanted to put their new database into production in 1 month. ... Finally I was able to find this great company, EQL Data that was totally dedicated to not only hosting a Microsoft Access database but having the expertise on staff to help with all of the details that are usually overlooked with a hosting solution and stringent timelines. I cannot express my thanks enough to your company and employees who have come up with a cost-effective hosting solution to keep the Microsoft Access database developers in business. Thanks to your company I still have a happy client. I look forward to doing future business with your company.

A "miracle for my business?" We like the sound of that!

Windows 7 Support

In other news, we've celebrated the release of Windows 7 by... doing nothing. Our software already worked with Windows 7, as it turned out. So we updated our web site to reflect that Windows 7 is now an officially supported platform. If you've been waiting, now's the time to try it out!

EQL Appliance and MS SQL

You asked, and we've been listening! Some of you who work in bigger companies have two big problems: first, you can't let your data off site, and second, you have a lot of Access apps that you use mainly for reporting against Microsoft SQL databases. But you still want to run your Access databases in a web browser for a variety of scalability reasons. What to do?

Introducing the EQL Appliance. Available as either physical hardware or as a VMware or VirtualBox "virtual appliance," it runs the EQL OnWeb server so we don't have to. Er, I mean, you can host the server on your private network, so all your data never has to leave your site, and you don't have to worry about firewall settings or proxy servers. If you also need MS SQL, your appliance can connect directly to it. We're almost ready to put the first few EQL Appliances in beta. Let us know if you want to give it a try!

Fancy New Demo Video

As part of our ongoing web site design, we've posted a new video that gives you the basic idea of how EQL works in about 60 seconds. If you're reading this, of course, you probably already know how EQL works... but maybe your friends don't. So you can show them. Or your co-workers. Or your customers. We're thinking of doing more videos, so please let us know what you think! You can find it on our home page at http://eqldata.com.

Other New Features and Fixes

This has been a month of fine tuning for the EQL Data services. As you probably know, fine tuning can take just as long as doing development in the first place... but it's still very important. Here are some changes you'll see in OnWeb if you grab the latest plugin (v1.9.6dp):

• Some significant speedups when syncing databases with large amounts of data.
• Better support for custom toolbars and menus.
• Support for mscomct2.ocx (including the Microsoft Calendar Picker control)
• The triumphant return of calc.exe! You never know when your users will need a calculator. (You can have your app launch calc.exe by running it from a button's macro.)
• Ability to "open" .xls and .doc files. You already know that when you "Print" from an OnWeb application, it actually sends you a PDF file to open or print in your web browser. Well now it works for spreadsheets and documents too! Where your app would normally generate and then open an .xls file, it now generates the file and sends it to your web browser, where you can download and open it in a local copy of Excel.

We hope you're happy with our progress and we're proud to have so many of you enjoying our services! Please stay in touch. You can email us by simply replying to this message.

Thanks for using EQL Data!

Avery
Co-founder, EQL Data Inc.

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