FLORIN Newsletter announcement
Konstantin P. Savov
kps at FLORIN.MSK.SU
Fri May 19 03:36:28 CDT 1995
Dear Taxacomers,
This is the first issue of our Newsletter. I'm sending it to the
mailing list for your information. Coming issues will be
sent for our users and subscribers only.
If it is of interest for you, please, subscribe.
You are welcome.
Konstantin Savov
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Volume 1 Issue no. 1 16 May 1995
Editor: Tatjana E. Kramina
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Dear FLORIN Users,
Dear Sirs/Madames,
We are glad to announce this Newsletter. This issue is the first one
and contain general information only. The next one will be available a
few days later. We plan to issue FLORIN On The Run regularly (about one
time per month). It will contain news and information about FLORIN, as
well as publications on the information systems related items (reviews,
FAQs, etc.).
We hope that this Newsletter would be useful both for FLORIN users and
all the people interested in information systems in biology, because
FLORIN is a system based on the modern technology (leading RDBMS with
some object-oriented elements integrated, cross-platform portability,
client-server architecture and networking, GIS, CASE-technology, etc.).
We believe that those features will stay at the top of the information
systems technology in the foreseeable future.
Please, do not hesitate to send us your questions, ideas, proposals for
discussion. You are very welcome!
Yours faithfully,
Konstantin Savov
FLORIN Project Leader
kps at florin.msk.su
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About this Newsletter
About FLORIN
FLORIN Releases
Support Services
About DataX/FLORIN, Inc.
In the next issue
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About this Newsletter
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FLORIN On The Run is a periodical issue published by DataX/FLORIN, Inc.
It is available in both printed and electronic forms. This Newsletter
is designed to help our users in everyday work with FLORIN Information
System and to provide subscribers with up-to-date information concerning
FLORIN. You can find here:
- announcements of new products and new versions,
- answers to frequently asked questions,
- known and solved bugs,
- problems reported by users and proposed solutions,
- any other valuable information.
We also plan to include in the Newsletter notes and/or articles received
from our users or subscribers and will be glad to receive any materials
from you.
This Newsletter is a standard part of FLORIN Documentation Set. If you
are a registered FLORIN user, please, do not worry about subscription.
You can receive FLORIN On The Run issues either in electronic or printed
form (via snail-mail or fax).
If you are not a registered FLORIN user, you can subscribe to this
Newsletter in electronic form. Such kind of subscription is free of
charge this year. You have only to send a message to
'floriner at florin.msk.su' with the following contents:
subscribe <address>
where <address> is your e-mail address.
About FLORIN
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FLORIN is an information system designed to support a wide range of data
about plants: taxonomy and nomenclature, geography (GIS-like interface
for geographic data is also available), herbarium and living collections
(with automated labels generation and collection management utilities),
detailed information about plants collected in the wild, bibliographic
data, etc. It works under DOS (personal and "multi-user" version) and
Unix-family operating systems (true multi-user version).
FLORIN includes a set of comparatively independent Products, to be
combined in different configurations. The module structure guarantees
the opportunity to provide user with the set of options needed.
FLORIN is a commercial software, so, you can not get it free of charge.
But, if you pay for this software, you get professionally designed
applications with complete documentation and support from our Company.
A powerful database engine from the leading RDBMS vendor (Informix
Software, Inc.) is included in a package.
FLORIN Releases
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There are three kinds of product releases corresponding to three levels
of program revision. FLORIN version number always contains three
digits: those of Major Release, Enhancement Release and Maintenance
Release (e.g. 1.01, 1.10, 2.22).
A Maintenance Release is indicated by a change in the version number that
is two places to the right of the decimal point, such as version 1.10 to
version 1.11, denotes Maintenance Release. It includes small
corrections and additions in a product within the frames of the current
FLORIN version, bugs fixes, etc. Those releases are actually a
part of Support Services, because registered FLORIN users get them free of
charge.
An Enhancement Release is indicated by a change in the version number
immediately to the right of the decimal point, such as version 1.1x to
version 1.2x, denotes an Enhancement Release. It is connected with
deeper alterations in the program such as configuration improvement, new
modules and utilities insertion, some changes in the interface etc.
A Major Release is indicated by a change in the version number to the
left of the decimal point, such as version 1.xx to version 2.xx, denotes
a Major Release. Main Release includes functional additions or
improvements and sometimes architectural changes.
The last two kinds of releases are not free in any case, but registered
FLORIN users will always get them at special pricing.
Support Services
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Several support levels are available:
HelpDesk support. If you have any questions concerning FLORIN
Products, you may contact FLORIN Technical Support by phone or
e-mail.
OpenLine support. This support level is available for FLORIN'
Unix sites only. On your request we would log in your System
via modem and make corrections needed.
On-Site support: If necessary, one of our specialists arrives to
your site in order to resolve problems.
In addition to the services mentioned above we always try to provide our
users with corrections and additions to products distributed, including
additional documentation. When we find bugs or problems (e.g. get
bug-reports from our users) in the current version, we make the corrections
needed. Bug fixes can be available as Patches or included in coming
Maintenance Releases. A registered FLORIN user by request can get a patch
announced for free. Maintenance Releases are sent to registered users
when issued.
If you are a registered FLORIN User, you will always get one-year
HelpDesk support, Maintenance Releases and Patches (bug fixes) with
additional documentation free of charge. OpenLine and On-Site support
are provided to users for the respective payments.
About DataX/FLORIN, Inc.
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DataX/FLORIN is a Company Limited, established in 1992 in Moscow,
Russia. The Company is a supplier and developer of multiuser systems,
advanced information systems and has the particular advantage in system
integration, customer services and support as well as the original
software development. DataX/FLORIN is an official partner of leading
hardware and software vendors, namely: Informix Software, Inc.
(Strategic VAR for Russia), Westmount Technology B.V. (Exclusive
Distributor for CIS), Santa Cruz Operation, NCD, Bull S.A., ICL, Sun
Microsystems, AT&T GIS, HP and others.
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IN THE NEXT ISSUE
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Profile: Version 1.10
Announcements: Versions 1.11 & 1.12
To the List of Known Bugs
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