APPA Mundi extends Perst database to Windows Phone
Today McObject, embedded database developers, announced formal support for their Perst database system on Windows Phone 7 following a port written by APPA Mundi's Andy Wigley. Perst is an open-source database engine for Java and .NET Framework. Andy successfully ported the code to run on the Silverlight runtime used on the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform. When Windows Phone devices ship in time for holiday season 2010 there will be no database engine on the platform which application developers can use. Perst supports storing its data within the Isolated Storage accessible to a Silverlight application.
“Three cheers for APPA Mundi and their initiative in driving Perst for .NET in this direction,” - McObject CEO Steve Graves
Along with the database engine itself Andy ported a sample CRM application to run on Windows Phone 7 using the Metro user interface design.
"Building a database for Windows Phone 7 qualifies as epic, The guys over at APPA Mundi have done something that certainly caught our eye.” - Brandon Watson, Director Windows Phone Developer Experience, Microsoft
You can read McObject's press release here. Read more about the port in Andy's blog posts one and two.



