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Founded in 1993, Base One began business by
providing Windows database consulting plus related software products
(class libraries and middleware). These products extended standard
Microsoft programming tools to speed up building complex business
systems in corporate client/server environments. Base One's original
software product for building Internet-enabled, Windows database
applications was BFC (Base/1 Foundation Component
Library). BFC extended MFC (Microsoft
Foundation Class Library), Microsoft's most successful
application development framework, and supported Microsoft
SQL Server, Access, Oracle, IBM DB2, Sybase, and MySQL database systems. In 1995, Base One began extending its
development tools to support high-reliability,
distributed computing, which was originally intended for
large-scale, financial database applications. This software turned
client PCs into "Batch Job Servers",
ready for coordinated, parallel processing. In 1996, Deutsche
Bank began using dynamic pools of PCs running Base One's
software to do repetitive back office operations, such as data
loads, exports, transformations, and large-scale financial reporting
tasks. The system went into production in 1997 and ran
continuously for over six years.
Deutsche Bank's
Securities Custody Reporting System
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In 1999, the introduction of Base
One's Internet Server led to supporting distributed processing
by a mixture of PCs on a LAN and PCs across the Internet, with any
machine able to be moved in and out of the pool, without centralized
administration. The accompanying enhancements to Base One's
programming tools and middleware were aimed at
creating complex consumer and business-to-business Internet sites,
as well as for building high-security corporate systems. The objective was to offer an affordable way to build the most
sophisticated, secure, and highly graphical Internet business
systems. This could support Internet applications that
perform well even with slow dial-up connections.
To our knowledge,
Base One had the only distributed technology
flexible enough to allow the same programs to run unchanged, whether
on a corporate local network, on a remote laptop, or across the
Internet. The Base One
Internet Server was also the only known method by which existing
Windows applications could be easily modified to run across the
Internet, with all traffic automatically encrypted.
Base One's main office was in New York City. In
1997, the company opened a subsidiary in Bangalore (the Silicon
Valley of India). Base One was a Microsoft Certified Partner, Oracle
Alliance Partner, Sybase Alliance Partner, and IBM
Solution Developer.
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