Feature Matrix - Blue Pacific Software

Which Turbine Development Tool is Right for Me?

Turbine development tools are available in a variety of options to fit your specific needs. Picking the appropriate product involves answering some key questions:

What type of output do you need: Flash, PDF or Flash Video?
Are you looking for a Web Server tool?
If so, what kind of server technology: ASP, ASP.NET or PHP?
If you answered PHP then for which platform: Windows or Linux?

Armed with responses to these questions, the following chart helps narrowing your selection to the best Turbine tool for your application:


Output Media Types	ASP Turbine	ASP.NET Turbine	PHP Turbine	Turbine SDK	TVE SDK

Generate Flash Rich Media
Generate PDF Documents
Generate Flash Video	(with some limitations)	(with some limitations)	(with some limitations)	(with some limitations)
Generate Charts


Input Types	ASP Turbine	ASP.NET Turbine	PHP Turbine	Turbine SDK	TVE SDK

Use Flash as Media Template
Use XML as Media Template
Integrate data from external Databases
QuickTime, AVI and FLV Video	(with some limitations)	(with some limitations)	(with some limitations)	(with some limitations)
Audio Content
Image Content


Supported Interfaces and Platforms	ASP Turbine	ASP.NET Turbine	PHP Turbine	Turbine SDK	TVE SDK

COM Interface
.NET Interface
Windows PHP Interface
Linux PHP Interface


General	ASP Turbine	ASP.NET Turbine	PHP Turbine	Turbine SDK	TVE SDK

Server Tool
Built-in Action Script Compiler
Media Caching
Unicode Support

Common Usages

Each one of the Turbine tools is designed to be the best choice in a particular area. The next table lists some of the most common uses for each Turbine product:

ASP Turbine	ASP.NET Turbine	PHP Turbine	Turbine SDK	TVE SDK
Dynamic Flash catalog for e-commerce website	Dynamic Flash catalog for e-commerce ASP.NET website	Dynamic Flash catalog for e-commerce website (Windows or Linux)	Implement a "Save as Flash" option in a Windows desktop application	Implement a "Save as Flash Video" option in a video processing application
Web GIS application	Web GIS application in ASP.NET	Web GIS application (Windows or Linux)	Implement a "Save as PDF" option in a Windows desktop application	Offline batch application that converts several video formats to Flash. The resulting media is uploaded to a website
Online publication that makes extensively use of multimedia	Online publication that makes extensively use of multimedia , developed in ASP.NET	Online publication that makes extensively use of multimedia (Windows or Linux)	Corporate application to generate legal PDF documents based on user input	Create customized interactive Flash video
Company intranet application to generate PDF invoices	Company intranet ASP.NET application to generate PDF invoices	Company intranet application to generate PDF invoices (Windows or Linux)	Corporate application that generates a weekly product catalog from a database. This catalog is uploaded to the company website as Flash and printed in PDF format for regular post mail distribution	Implement an application that automatically encodes source videos placed on a folder and uploads them into a corporate website

To learn more about the Turbine development tools please check the Products Section.