1. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com What Do We Do at BASIS? Laurence Guiney Senior Account Manager BASIS International, Ltd.

2. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Overview Who we are Developer tools Language/interpreter Database Enterprise management tools

3. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Who is BASIS International Founded in 1985 Leader in Business BASIC software market  7,000 application software developers  More then 1.7 million end-users Applications in industries as varied as:  Banking  Manufacturing  Health care  Automotive

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7. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Developer Tools BASIS IDE (Integrated Development Environment)  Data dictionary builder  Resource/Form builder  Data file viewer  BB X® compilers  File-type/icon association  Editor  Debugger Performance Analyzer GUIBuilder

8. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Language / Interpreter Cross platform ability (write once, run anywhere) BBj is Business BASIC extended on Java BBj is the latest generation of BBx Language features include:  Character version  Platform independent GUI  Object oriented extensions

9. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com BASIS DBMS Characteristics  Robust  Scalable  Reliable  Secure – 128 bit AES Data Dictionary Enterprise Manager ODBC/JDBC

10. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com BLOB New field type – VarBinary type ‘O’ Binary large objects  Pictures  Documents  Sound  Video Record type  MKEYED - fixed length, 32K limit  XKEYED - fixed length  JKEYED - variable length

11. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Database Direct-result-set Navigation  READRECORD  Templates  Performance (excellent) Relational Access  SQL engine  ODBC  JDBC  Performance (excellent)

12. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com ODBC Performance Improvements ODBC "SELECT * FROM TABLE" records/second using a C# client

13. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Enterprise Management Tools Database creation Data dictionary maintenance Open file monitor Running process monitor Memory management Performance tuning Log file configuration

14. ©1985-2005 BASIS International Ltd. All rights reserved. U.S. Sales: 1.800.423.1394 Worldwide Sales: +1.505.938.6101 info@basis.com www.basis.cominfo@basis.comwww.basis.com Summary BASIS Provides: Developer tools Language/interpreter Database Enterprise management tools