Press Release - Distributed Computing
David Challenges the Goliaths....(but not without help)!
Cary, North Carolina, January 29, 1998

Mission Software has thrown down the "distributed computing" gauntlet with the launch of its Business OS® application development framework. This small 4-year-old company based in Cary, NC is taking on the "big boys" for a slice of the enterprise distributed computed market. Mission Software's Business OS® product challenges the distributed computing market leader Forte as well as competitors Delphi and Powerbuilder, and achieves what the others only aspire to do, namely performance.

Moving large amounts of data around internal computer networks or the Internet severely impacts system performance and drives down user productivity. Business OS® brings up large lists of information in seconds, and the speed is not impacted by the amount of data. Large lists of more than 100,000 items load just as quickly as small ones.

Distributed computing is typically complex, difficult, and expensive. This is not the case with Business OS®. This product is powerful, easy to use and significantly cheaper than its competitors. Creating new applications is fast, simple, and effective. This means that development times can be dramatically reduced...resulting in big cost savings!

Mission Software's Business OS® product is built on top of IBM's premiere application development toolset VisualAge. The choice of VisualAge is no accident. With IBM focusing its application development strategy on the VisualAge family of products, Mission Software can leverage the market position of IBM without having to worry about the product base. So with Business OS® as the ammunition and VisualAge as the slingshot, this David is a force to be reckoned with. Lookout Goliaths!!