NativeDB is not a new product but has been around for nearly twelve years now. In the
first period used in our own development projects only. The following lists some
of the milestones in the development phase.
July 31, 2007
Added support for Codegear Delphi 2007 for Win32 and CodeGear C++Builder 2006 and 2007.
May 30, 2006
Added support for Borland Delphi 2006 (Win32).
February 16, 2005
Added support for Borland Delphi 2005 (Win32).
Mars 18, 2003
Added a new bonus "dbExpress driver" to meet the requirements from projects
relying on this rather new Borland technology.
May 29, 2002
Announced a new product "NativeDB Alerts" to allow intersession communication
in a database or client-application.
January 1, 2002
Added support for Microsoft ActiveX enabled development environments.
July 27, 2001
Became a Borland Technology Partner (BTP).
June 2, 2001
Added support for Linux.
April 16, 2000
NativeDB was commercially available at the web (nativedb.com).
February 12, 1999
NativeDB was distributed through The Delphi Super Page and other Delphi related sites.
November 3, 1998
Discovered the powerful database Watcom SQL 4. Added Delphi classes to support both
Watcom SQL 3.2 and 4, as well as SQL Anywhere 5. SQL Anywhere was very easy to distribute,
so it was chosen to be the perfect target database for NativeDB. Version 1.1 was
released.
April 24, 1997
Finalized our OCI based interface. NativeDB 1.0 for Oracle
was ready.
September 26, 1996
Decided to make a replacement component to the BDE with direct access to Oracle
databases using the standard Oracle Call Interface (OCI).
October 16, 1995
A first version of a DB interface to simplify data-access to Oracle databases
was ready. This Delphi class was dependant on the BDE and was a simple wrapper-class.
July 24, 1995
The first engineering steps was taken to design an easy-to-use database interface
for Oracle databases. The interface supported optional exception-handling and
boolean function-results to simplify application development. This build the foundation
of NativeDB.
