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  Recital is a proven solution for migrating robust, mission-critical FoxPro, SCO FoxBASE, dBase and Clipper applications to Linux, Unix, OpenVMS and Windows. Using our products you can embrace and extend your existing applications and provide data access to them through third party reporting tools that use JDBC, ODBC and ADO.NET. Additionally, using our Mirage .NET product, you can extend your legacy applications with Windows .NET Forms.
• About Recital
  Since 1988 Recital™ Corporation have been providing a unique solution that includes a blend of cross-platform database development and migration tools for legacy application and data integration, the world's first cross-platform Visual FoxPro 8.0 compatible database server, complete applications outsourcing, professional support, training, and services. We have have helped migrate thousands of mission critical banking, defense, logistics, POS and other applications.
• Contact Us
  Contact Information: Recital Corporation has offices in the USA, the UK, and Asia. Our highly-trained sales staff can help you find a solution that's right for you, while our professional technical support and consulting staff can make sure your system is running smoothly.
• Talk To Us
  At Recital Corporation, we are always within easy reach of our customers. Whatever the reason - be it the need for help or for information of any kind regarding our product or services - then we want to know about it. If there is anything we can do to be of assistance to you, then talk to us.

Products

• Recital Product Overview
  Recital 9 is a family of products that includes a new and enhanced version of our flagship product; Recital 9 Terminal Developer, a new IDE for building and deploying internet-based applications; Recital 9 Visual Developer, and a cross-platform ANSI SQL compliant database server that is also compatible with Visual FoxPro 8.0 SQL; The Recital 9 Database Server.
  • Recital 9 Product Family Datasheet (pdf)
    The Recital 9 product family is a platform, user interface and data source independent solution that defines and delivers tools and technologies for building character based, client/server and internet-based database solutions.
• Recital Terminal Developer
  A complete multi-user database, with an integrated 4GL and suite of tools for developing and deploying character mode applications for Linux, Unix or OpenVMS.
  • Recital Terminal Developer Datasheet (pdf)
    Recital 9 Terminal Developer is the only cross-platform ANSI SQL compliant database and 4GL for Linux, Unix, and OpenVMS that has 100% language and database compatibility with FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE. Recital 9 Terminal Developer is the premier cross-platform tool for running, enhancing, and supporting your legacy FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE applications on Linux, Unix or OpenVMS without
    the need to rewrite the application, or retrain your developers and end-users.
• Recital Visual Developer
  A complete Windows-based integrated development environment (IDE) for building, debugging, deploying and maintaining Recital applications with Web, Windows and terminal user interfaces.
  • Recital Visual Developer Datasheet (pdf)
    Migrate FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE applications to the internet and transform them into GUI client/server applications without having to rewrite the code. Legacy FoxPro 2.6 and SCO FoxBASE applications can be enhanced with full Windows .NET Forms functionality.
  • Recital Visual Developer Product Tour
    Recital Visual Developer is a set of software tools and technologies that enable developers to migrate Recital, FoxPro, FoxBASE, dBase and Clipper applications to Linux, UNIX, OpenVMS or Windows servers.
• Recital Database Server
  The Recital 9 Database Server is a cross-platform, ANSI SQL compliant database server, that also provides universal cross-platform data connectivity to Windows, Linux, Unix and OpenVMS data — across the internet.
  • Recital Database Server Datasheet (pdf)
    The Recital 9 Database Server has support for accessing disparate data on Linux, Unix, OpenVMS and Windows servers across the internet. Also includes support for server-side ODBC drivers, JDBC drivers and ADO drivers.
  • Recital SQL Language Comparison Guide (pdf)
    A comparison of the SQL language features in Recital, MySQL and Visual FoxPro.
• Recital Web Developer
  Recital Web Developer is the complete solution to building dynamic data-centric web pages. It includes the Recital Firecat HTTP Server incorporating a Database and 4GL. Recital Firecat can serve static html pages, images, and Recital Server Pages (.rsp pages) similar to the way PHP dynamic pages are generated. With Recital Firecat .rsp pages, you can embed Recital/4GL scripting commands inside HTML documents.
  
• Trial Downloads
  Trial downloads area. Here you can download trial versions of our products for a 14-day evaluation period. Registration required.

Sales

• Online Webstore
  The Recital Electronic Store, where you can securely purchase any of the Recital products for electronic download.
• Order by Phone
  Contact Information: Recital Corporation has offices in the USA, the UK, and Asia. Our highly-trained sales staff can help you find a solution that's right for you.
• Contact Sales
  Email the Recital sales team.

Services and Support

• Developer Center
  The Recital Developer Center Forums include General Discussions, Product Download links, Technical Articles, FAQs and Support Forums for all products. Registration required.
• Consulting Services
  Recital Consulting Services include the following: Internet enabling of applications, Custom development services, Platform migration services, Database administration services, System performance tuning, Application Development Outsourcing, Application Support, and Application Re-engineering.
• Education
  Recital customers and partners can choose from a variety of educational services available around the world. Whether you are a novice or seasoned Recital developer, we can help.
• Bug Reporting
  On-line developer's resource that gives you access to up-to-the-minute technical information and lets you submit and track technical issues 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Registration required.
• Support & Maintenance Contracts
  Recital Corporation offers full Support and Maintenance Contracts for all Recital products, giving access to Technical Support and product upgrades.
• Trial Downloads
  Trial downloads area. Here you can download trial versions of our products for a 14-day evaluation period. Registration required.
• Maintenance Updates
  Maintenance updates area. Here, customers with a valid Recital Support & Maintenance Contract can download the latest distributions of our products. These distributions do not include a license. For product evaluations, please use the Trial Downloads area. For license upgrades, please contact your local office. Registration required.
• Documentation
  Reference manuals and installation guides for all Recital products in pdf or chm format for viewing online or downloading.
• Talk To Us
  At Recital Corporation, we are always within easy reach of our customers. Whatever the reason - be it the need for help or for information of any kind regarding our product or services - then we want to know about it. If there is anything we can do to be of assistance to you, then talk to us.

Web Site

• Terms of Use
  Notices regarding software, documents and services available on this website.
• Privacy Policy
  To protect your privacy, recital.com follows five principles in accordance with worldwide practices for customer privacy and data protection.
• Contact Us
  Contact Information for our offices in the USA, the UK, and Asia. Our highly-trained sales staff can help you find a solution that's right for you, while our professional technical support and consulting staff can make sure your system is running smoothly

Technical Articles

• XBase Myths Debunked
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital debunks the myths and misrepresentations surrounding XBase and explains how Recital, an enterprise-class XBase platform, has overcome all the shortfalls and weaknesses of early XBase implementations.
• Data Integration with XML
  In this article Yvonne Milne discusses the features in Recital that allow data to be imported and exported between platforms in Microsoft ADO XML format.
• Data Integration using Gateways and Bridges - Part 1
  The first in a series of articles by Yvonne Milne examining the use of Recital Gateways and Bridges across different platforms. This article looks at the use of the Remote Data Connectivity Functions with Recital Database Gateways.
• Data Integration using Gateways and Bridges - Part 2
  The second in a series of articles by Yvonne Milne examining the use of Recital Gateways and Bridges across different platforms. This article looks at the range of client access mechanisms for Windows that can be used with the Recital C-ISAM Bridge and details bridge configuration and usage.
• Using Databases
  In this article Yvonne Milne examines the advantages of using databases and looks at how to create databases for new and existing applications.
• The Recital Solution for Universal Data Integration
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital provides details on how the Recital Database Server can be used to provide a solution for Universal Data Integration.
• Using The Database Administration with Recital Enterprise Studio.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital provides details on how to use the Database Administrator for working with local or remote databases.
• Using the Recital Universal .NET Data Provider.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital provides details on how to use the Recital Universal .NET Data Provider with the Recital Database Server.
• Working with JDBC data sources.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details on how to use the Client Drivers provided with the Recital Database Server to work with local or remote server-side JDBC data sources.
• Accessing ODBC data sources.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details on how to use the Client Drivers provided with the Recital Database Server to work with local or remote server-side ODBC data sources.
• Working with server-side OLE DB data sources.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details on how to use the Client Drivers provided with the Recital Database Server to work with local or remote server-side OLE DB data sources.
• Working with user-defined Functions in the Recital Database Server.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details on Working with user-defined Functions in the Recital Database Server.
• Working with Stored Procedures in the Recital Database Server.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details on Working with Stored Procedures in the Recital Database Server.
• Working with Triggers in the Recital Database server.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details on how to work with Triggers in the Recital Database Server.
• Building C Extension Libraries for Recital 9.
  In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details how to Build C Extension Libraries for use with the Recital 9 Family of products.
• Using Pseudo Columns in Recital 9.
  In this article Yvonne Milne details on how to use Pseudo Columns in Recital 9 to return extra information about row sets.
• Using System Tables in Recital 9.
  In this article Yvonne Milne details on how to use the System Tables in Recital 9.
• Using the Recital Database Server with Visual FoxPro.
  In this article Barry Mavin In this article Barry Mavin, CEO and Chief Software Architect for Recital details how to use the Recital Database Server with Visual FoxPro.
• Recital Terminal Definition Files.
  In this article Yvonne Milne explains the contents and configuration of Recital Terminal Definition files.
• Recital Database Security.
  In this article Yvonne Milne discusses Recital database security: from operating system file permissions through file and field protection to DES3 encryption.
• Recital Logging.
  In this article Yvonne Milne provides a guide to Recital log files: the log files available in Recital products and how to enable logging when required.
• Multimedia Binary Objects and the Recital 9 Database.
  In this article Chris Mavin explains and how to Store and Retrieve Binary Objects in the Recital 9 Database.
• After Image Journaling and Audit Trails in Recital.
  In this article Yvonne Milne looks at After Image Journaling and audit trails in Recital using SET JOURNAL and associated commands.
• Using Recital Enterprise Studio with Recital Terminal Developer.
  In this article Yvonne Milne explains how Recital Enterprise Studio can be used as a Development Environment for Recital Terminal Developer applications.
• FoxPro Migration to Linux Guide.
  In this article Chris Mavin talks you through migrating your FoxPro system to Linux.
• Mirage Client Controls Spotlight - Graph Controls.
  The first in a series of articles examining in depth a particular Mirage .NET control. This month the spotlight is on the Graph Controls. Part 1, Bar Charts.
• Mirage Client Controls Spotlight - Graph Controls.
  The first in a series of articles examining in depth a particular Mirage .NET control. This month the spotlight is on the Graph Controls. Part 2, Pie Charts.
• Mirage Client Controls Spotlight - Graph Controls.
  The first in a series of articles examining in depth a particular Mirage .NET control. This month the spotlight is on the Graph Controls. Part 3, Line Charts