February 16, 2002: VantagePoint Software will be sharing booth 82 with one of its VAR's, Database Designs, at the upcoming International Spectrum 2002 Conference and Exhibition being held at the Hyatt Islandia Resort Hotel in San Diego California on February 18-21. At the booth VantagePoint Software will be demonstrating the new technology associated with mvComponents Suite 2.0. Larry Wilcox from VantagePoint Software, along with Steve Backman of Database Designs will also participate in the conference by putting on educational sessions during the week. For those attending you might want to catch Session 331 on Thursday February 21st. Steve Backman and Larry Wilcox will have a two hour session on "Getting your MultiValue Data onto the Web using Business Objects". mvComponents with the new Gateway software will be demonstrated as part of the session.

February 2, 2002: VantagePoint Software announces that Version 3.0 of mvComponents Suite is under development. Version 3.0 will include a number of enhancements to the existing set of tools and components including new streamlined database components, Gateway support for Relational database sources, the new 3.0 version of Power Strings with improved string management functions, a client-based install/update program for the mvServer Host-based software, and a new client-based mapping program. In addition mvComponents 3.0 will be developed for existing COM-based development environments, Microsoft's new .NET platform, and for Sun Microsystems's J2EE Java-based development environment. The new COM and .NET versions should be available the 2nd Quarter of 2002 with the Java-based version available the 3rd Quarter of 2002.

December 31, 2001: An updated version of mvComponents Suite is now available from VantagePoint Software. This version includes the new multithreaded, multiplexing Gateway Service software that dramatically improves connectivity and scalability of applications written with mvComponents. Current customers will be contacted about downloading the upgrade which is free to those currently on maintenance.

November 16, 2001: VantagePoint Software announces that new releases of Power Strings and Vantage Control Set are under development. Power Strings will be release the 2nd Quarter of 2002, while Vantage Control Set will be released during the 3rd Quarter of 2002.

While the 2.0 version of Power Strings has been available as part of the mvComponents Suite 2.0, a separate 3.0 version of Power Strings will be made available to the general Windows and Web application develop market. There are three versions being developed, a COM-based version for existing Visual Studio 6.0 development languages, a managed component set for the .NET platform, and Java-based version. Pricing for each version has been set at $299.00 USD for a single developers license. Discounts will be available for developers required more than one version. A site license version will also be available at $1,499.00 USD.

Version 3.0 of Vantage Control Set includes a completely rebuilt set of OCX controls based on the Active Template Library (ATL) rather than the MFC based version currently available. This will reduce the amount of dependency DLLs needed for distribution and will provide for a leaner, faster set of controls. An upgrade is also planned for the VPComboBox and VPListBox controls with added support of binding with ADO/OLEDB data sources. Version 3.0 should be available in the 3rd Quarter of 2002. A version of Vantage Control Set is also planned for 2002 which will provide components for the .NET platform. Please check back later for a full list of new features and enhancements.

April 10, 2000: Spectrum Magazine in the March/April edition published an article by Ian Sandler on the experience of The AGES Group (Volvo Aero Services) in integrating their MultiValue System with Windows and the Web. Featured within the article was the AGES Group's use of different development tools from VantagePoint Software's mvComponents Suite 2.0.