DARMSTADT, Germany, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Software AG, a global leader in business infrastructure software, today announced that it has published Tamino On Rails as an Open Source contribution under Sourceforge.net . Ruby on Rails is a rapidly growing, Open Source framework for developing database- driven Web applications. This package extends interoperability to the Tamino XML Server, Software AG's native XML database management system. Tamino users can now take advantage of the speed and ease of development offered by Ruby on Rails to more quickly create new applications. By building these applications using an XML database that is optimized for the Web, developers can create faster, more dynamic and better performing applications.

"Due to its native support for all XML document types and schemas, Tamino can quickly configure multiple data sources into a single view. This makes it a premier platform for creating highly-dynamic, multi-channel Web applications. As demonstrated by today's announcement, we're committed to maintaining Tamino's position as the leading XML database," said Dr. Peter Kurpick, Software AG's executive board member with management responsibilities for the webMethods business line. "With minimal coding and configuration required, Ruby on Rails makes it comparatively easy to develop highly responsive applications and Website that fully leverage Tamino's extensibility. Furthermore, Tamino helps to overcome some of the lack of adaptability inherent in the framework due to the underlying support for complex data types and manipulations that it offers."

Tamino On Rails, v1.0 provides applications using Ruby and the Rails Web application framework with access to XML-based data sets in XQuery-capable databases. By doing so, it minimizes the time and effort needed to create Web-based front ends to XML datasets while improving programmer productivity and accuracy. This package contains all Tamino-specific Rails framework resources including functions to access / create / modify / delete data sets stored in Tamino.

The published software has been implemented and tested using Software AG's Tamino XML Server and provides connectivity to other XML DBMSs as well. It is available free-of-charge under the liberal Apache license and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/taminoonrails .

About Tamino

Software AG's Tamino XML Server is an award-winning, high-performance XML server for data management based on standard Internet technologies. At the heart of Tamino is a powerful XML engine providing all functionality necessary to process, generate and exchange XML documents on the fly.

Tamino enables businesses to leverage the value of XML in order to improve information access and sharing. It enables multi-channel delivery and the exchange of data with disparate partners and applications. Tamino helps users to handle a wide range from information sources, from hierarchically structured XML documents to data in legacy systems. Even unstructured data such as images, video and audio streams can be managed and shared.

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Software AG's 4,000 global customers achieve measurable business results by modernizing and automating their IT systems and rapidly building new systems to meet growing business demands. The company's industry-leading product portfolio includes best-in-class solutions for managing data, enabling service oriented architecture, and improving business processes. By combining proven technology with industry expertise and best practices, our customers improve and differentiate their businesses - faster. Software AG has more than 35 years of global IT experience and 3,800 employees serving customers in 70 countries. The company is headquartered in Germany and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). Software AG posted total revenues of euro 483 million in 2006. http://www.softwareag.com/

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