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<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 3, 2000</p>
<p>BLUE WORLD RELEASES LASSO 4D WEB DATA ENGINE</p>
<p>Blue World and ACI US partnership delivers powerful solution for deploying<br />
high-performance data-driven Web applications. Save $200 through end of<br />
June.</p>
<p>Bellevue, WA--April 3, 2000--Blue World Communications, Inc.--pioneers of<br />
the Web Data Engine--today announced the immediate availability of Lasso 4D<br />
Web Data Engine. Lasso 4D Web Data Engine is the result of the<br />
co-development, marketing and distribution agreement between Blue World and<br />
ACI US, publishers of the 4th Dimension family of database products. Lasso<br />
4D Web Data Engine provides direct Lasso Web Data Engine connectivity to<br />
the fully multi-threaded 4D Server with performance over twice as fast as<br />
connectivity to common desktop database products.</p>
<p>"Lasso 4D Web Data Engine is the answer to numerous requests from customers<br />
who desire an easy to use, cross-platform, multi-threaded database that<br />
tightly integrates with the Lasso product line," said Bill Doerrfeld,<br />
president and CEO of Blue World Communications, Inc.</p>
<p>"We're pleased to partner with Blue World to bring widely used Lasso<br />
technology to the burgeoning 4D community," said Brendan Coveney, president<br />
of ACI US. "Both established 4D developers and beginning Web application<br />
developers will find Lasso 4D Web Data Engine delivers an unparalleled<br />
combination of power, performance, ease-of-use and flexibility."</p>
<p>About Lasso 4D Web Data Engine</p>
<p>Lasso 4D Web Data Engine is the first Web application server solution<br />
offering direct connectivity to 4D Server via the 4D Open Application<br />
Programming Interface. Lasso 4D Web Data Engine delivers the first Lasso<br />
data source module for direct connectivity to a high-performance<br />
multi-threaded database offering enhanced ease-of-use over ODBC<br />
connectivity. Lasso 4D Web Data Engine provides robust support for 4D<br />
features including relations, images (Macintosh only), choice lists and<br />
connection caching. What's more, Lasso 4D Web Data Engine installations can<br />
communicate with 4D Server running on a different machine and/or platform<br />
facilitating maximum flexibility with Web application server configuration.</p>
<p>Given the database-independent design of Lasso, migrating current Lasso<br />
solutions to Lasso 4D Web Data Engine is possible with little or no<br />
modification to one's code. Further, to ease the migration process, ACI US<br />
provides 4D Assimilator<br />
(<a href="http://www.acius.com/assimilator.html" title="http://www.acius.com/assimilator.html">http://www.acius.com/assimilator.html</a>), a new tool that converts<br />
ODBC-compliant databases to 4D databases. Current Lasso Web Data Engine<br />
customers can add 4D functionality by purchasing and installing the Lasso<br />
4D Data Source Module, the separately available data source module<br />
component of Lasso 4D Web Data Engine.</p>
<p>Availability</p>
<p>Electronic download versions of Lasso 4D Web Data Engine are immediately<br />
available for purchase via authorized resellers and the Blue World Store<br />
(<a href="http://store.blueworld.com/" title="http://store.blueworld.com/">http://store.blueworld.com/</a>) at standard pricing from $799 to $999<br />
depending upon edition and configuration. Boxed versions will be available<br />
later this month. The Lasso 4D Data Source Module component of Lasso 4D Web<br />
Data Engine is also available to Lasso FMP and Lasso ODBC Web Data Engine<br />
registered customers for electronic download at $599. A free 30-day<br />
evaluation version of Lasso 4D Web Data Engine and Lasso 4D Data Source<br />
Module is available via the Blue World download Web page at<br />
<p>Customers who purchase any edition or configuration of Lasso 4D Web Data<br />
Engine or Lasso 4D Data Source Module save $200 over standard pricing<br />
listed above now through June 30, 2000 when ordered direct from Blue World<br />
via the Blue World Store.</p>
<p>About Blue World</p>
<p>Blue World Communications (<a href="http://www.blueworld.com" title="http://www.blueworld.com">http://www.blueworld.com</a>) delivers<br />
cross-platform software tools allowing Web developers and designers to<br />
quickly build and deploy powerful data-driven Web applications. Blue World<br />
provides Lasso Web Data Engine, Lasso Studio for Dreamweaver, Blue World<br />
Store and Blue World ListSearch service in fulfillment of its mission to<br />
bring business to the Internet.</p>
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