Let's face it - if you're writing web applications which have to operate in the real world, Revelation's OICGI just doesn't cut it. It's a great prototyping tool but it was never meant for anything other than low volume low usage applications. If you've tried to develop commercial grade applications with OICGI you'll doubtless have run into some of it's many limitations. Do any of these sound familiar to you?  | Inability to scale the application to cope with increasing demand | | Unexplained crashes | | Inability to feed pages greater than 64K | | Inability to run with current versions of IIS without giving an anonymous user administrator rights. | | Inability to work with non Windows Web Servers | | Lack of easy way to manipulate HTTP headers | | Inability to isolate application behind multiple firewalls | | Requirement to upgrade AREV application to 3.12 before OICGI can be used | | Requirement not to use periods in column names | | Requirement to learn OpenInsight to publish AREV data to the web | | Complete lack of support for Rev G |
Most of them were familiar to us at Sprezzatura, so we decided to do something about it. In conjunction with several of our major clients we developed a replacement for OICGI called S/Web. S/Web has been in testing now at these clients for several months and results are outstanding! The major benefits of S/Web that we and our clients have seen are as follows :- | Incredibly scaleable, just add new AREV/OI processes (each process is a network user) | | Improved speed of response | | Ability to serve pages of up to 4MB (AREV and OI versions only (if expanded memory available in AREV)) | | ISAPI technology more in tune with current Microsoft product directions | | PERL version for non-Microsoft Web Servers | | Object based model for ease of programming, exposing both document model and header model | | Compatible with any version of AREV and OpenInsight | | Program in the language of your database - no need for AREV users to migrate to OI |
The above features relate only to S/Web. In addition to S/Web, Sprezzatura have developed a complete javaScript library to implement all of the front end features AREV and OI developers have come to expect. For further details watch this space! 
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