Inso rolls out DynaBase 3

The big news at Inso was its acquisition of Bitstream's MediaBank, giving the company a solid system for managing a variety of assets, especially images, that DynaBase lacks (see story in the Latest Word). But Inso's own development team has also been busy, and this month it released version 3 of DynaBase, which was announced last spring.

An important feature of the new release is the ability to batch-export static pages to a Web server so that every page doesn't have to be generated on the fly. Dynamic content is great, but the performance hit is noticeable. Therefore, the current best practice is to pregenerate and cache as many pages as practical, leaving dynamic …