OpenLink Software Announces Virtuoso 3.2

This Blog Site is actually powered by Virtuoso 3.2 (has been doing so prior to the announcement). Hmm. product utilization preceding press release? Why not?

OpenLink adds Weblog client and server functionality to
Virtual Database Engine for SQL, XML, and Web Services

Burlington, MA. June 25, 2003 - OpenLink Software, Inc., a leading provider of universal data access and enterprise information integration middleware, announces Virtuoso 3.2 — the latest edition of its cross platform Virtual Database for SQL, XML, and Web Services — for Mac® OS X.

The new release incorporates full client and server support for the Blogger, Moveable Type, and MetaWeblog APIs, providing users with choice over location, format, data storage, development environment, and host operating system, for personal, community, and corporate Weblogs. The new release also facilitates the transparent integration of Weblog data with other enterprise data sources.

Full Press Release

Putting together the community site took 5 minutes and it basically involved the following steps:

1. Standard installation from installer program (Mac OS X in this case, but Windows, Linux, and UNIX supported)

2. Creation of WebDAV user account for WebDAV repository (where all the gems reside)

3. Clicking on the "Generate Web Site" button situated in the Weblog menu tree with the Virtuoso HTML based Admin UI

4. Filled up my channel and blogrolls by asking Virtuoso to use it’s very old web content aggregation functionality

5. Setup my upstreams (so that I post once and propagate to my numerous blog sites on a conditional basis)

6. Create a Virtuoso HTTP Virtual Domain for the community/personal Blog

7. Start blogging using any Blog Client that supports; Blogger API, MetaWeblog, or Moveable Type

No more no less. Most importantly I have a choice of programming languages (VSP, VSX, PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, Perl, Python), operating systems, and databases that constitute the shape and form of my blog home.

See the Virtuoso FAQ for how this all comes together.