Mike Wright, Director of Technology, Zumasys
The next decade of MultiValue will mark its convergence with modern software development and system architecture principles. As day-to-day management of our PICK systems transitions to the DevOps team, continued enhancements will be essential to make the databases more accessible and attractive to that group.
We will see continued growth in MultiValue Open Source projects, with utility-type projects such as MV Basic for VS Code and application-level projects such as Brent Blair’s jBASE/jAgent REST framework (https://github.com/pickmultivalue/jAgent). The MultiValue community has long yearned for these sorts of collaborative efforts, and, as awareness increases, the number of projects will skyrocket.
Additionally, we will see the first MultiValue platform offer a free licensing model. While the existing userbase has long been accustomed to the pay-for-play model, the barrier to entry for net-new users will finally be lowered by a vendor offering a zero-cost option for those looking to create new applications powered by MultiValue.