BBj Technology Marries Java with Business BASIC.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2001 BASIS International Ltd., a global leader in software development tools for business applications, Monday announced the release of BBj(R), the new Java(TM)-based Business BASIC product. BBj is the most significant development in the Business BASIC world since the porting of the language to non-proprietary systems in the 1980s. Combining the networking strengths of Java with the ease and business processing of Business BASIC, BBj allows thousands of companies around the world to bring their legacy business applications into the 21st century of computing technology. For 15 years, BASIS has provided over 7,000 software application developers the tools to create leading business applications that are reliable, scalable and cost effective. BASIS products form the foundation of thousands of mission-critical systems in industries as varied as banking to manufacturing to health care and serve 1.7 million end-users worldwide. Just a few of the companies running on BASIS include Cardis, Carrefour Hypermarkets, Chase Bankruptcy Information Systems, Citicorp, Estee Lauder, Marriott, Procter & Gamble and Samsung. The BBj Enterprise Edition(TM) provides true client/server and distributed processing with a power and portability never before available for Business BASIC users. With its Thin Client, running locally over a LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or remotely over a WAN, either on a stand-alone machine or in a Web browser, applications can be accessed from anywhere. With the Java-based interpreter, GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. code now runs in the native GUI mode of most any operating system, making it available on UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). as well as Microsoft Windows clients. And its server-centric, Java-based data server ensures that whether the user is remote or local, data access is fast and reliable. The BBj Standard Edition(TM) is the upgrade path for terminal-based, stand-alone, multi-user or single-user Windows systems. BBj is available on Compaq Tru64 UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Linux, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris Intel and Sun Solaris SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill operating systems. |
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