The changes in Biblioscape 5 are mostly in the database backend. Earlier versions of Biblioscape depends on Borland Database Engine (BDE) for all database related operations. BDE is fast and allows users to use several popular databases like Paradox, Access, and InterBase for data storage. But there are problems with BDE. First, Borland will no longer develop BDE. Second, BDE is used by lots of other applications like WordPerfect Office. This can cause database stability problems for some users because of version and setting conflicts. We have replaced BDE with a new database engine that is fast, reliable and extremely easy to setup for multi-user environment.
Biblioscape 5 can be used by a single user with database on the local drive, by a group of users with database on the file server, even by users from different countries accessing the database through the Internet. For remote access, Biblioscape comes with BiblioRemote server which lets users to open a remote database and use it the same way as if it is on their own machine. Biblioscape also allows remote access with a web browser interface through BiblioWeb server. BiblioWeb is completely redone to provide more features and a cleaner interface.