FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUBJECT:

FairCom® releases new version of FairCom Server V6.8 offering file encryption, enhanced file mirroring and many new robust features such as conditional indices and transaction history logic.

Contact:

Tamra Brown, Grant Robbennolt

FairCom Corporation (573) 445-6833

Columbia, MO — January 29, 1999 — FairCom® Corporation announced the latest release of its FairCom database Server with file encryption. This ability to encrypt data and index files as well as transaction log files provides an extra level of confidentiality to an application's data files. Files that are encrypted using the FairCom Server's encryption algorithm can only be decrypted by the FairCom Server. This feature prevents standalone applications from gaining access to sensitive data.

In addition, the FairCom Server SDK provides an additional level of security by allowing developers to customize the encryption process so that only the server that has encrypted the data can access it. "Data encryption prevents the casual user the ability to "dump" or "inspect" data." explains Winston Atkisson, FairCom's Senior Engineer. "The actual implementation of this feature is quite easy as the developer need only specify via a new function in the c-tree Plus API whether or not a file and its index are to be encrypted. Encryption is especially important to our customers in the financial services industry or any other c-tree Plus customer who may be storing sensitive data."

Panos Neris, Vice-President of Citibank, N.A. commented "Our development group found FairCom's engineering team deserving of their excellent reputation. Our design team worked closely with their engineers to implement the file encryption which strengthens the security of our products. FairCom delivered quality service and product throughout the design process to our implementation. They have many years of providing innovative, dependable solutions to the commercial software community, and it shows."

The new FairCom Server also includes advanced mirrored file features, specifically, the FairCom Server will now accommodate re-acquisition of a lost, mirrored start file. Mirrored files are automatically copied during a rebuild, automatic recovery and dynamic dump restore.

Thus, even if a mirrored copy fails, the rebuild will continue. The new FairCom Servers also offer a powerful conditional index support feature that allows indices to be defined at the data content level rather than at just the field level. Dynamic index (select/omit) filtering can be performed on c-tree Plus® index files by using a powerful expression parser/analyzer. This provides smaller, faster indices that meet the developers specific data content level needs.

This version of the FairCom Server includes new support for the following platforms: FreeBSD Unix, SCO UnixWare and SGI IRIX.

FairCom created Access Manager for Digital Research in 1979 and released its first true application development tool, the original c-tree file handler, that same year. Today c-tree Plus is running in over 100 CPU/OS environments in more than 98 countries worldwide. FairCom Server technology is utilized by such noted organizations as: McGraw-Hill, Federal Express and General Foods Corporation. Companies like Computer Associates and Sharp Corporation have embedded FairCom's c-tree within vertical market products and licensed FairCom Server technology for OEM uses.

The FairCom Servers retail from $445 to $6,795, depending upon the number of users. They are licensed on a per server machine basis. OEM distribution and source are available. c-tree Plus is priced at $895 with full C source code, no royalties, 26+ free development Servers, and Development ODBC Drivers. Full support for over 25 platform from Windows to Mac is included with each c-tree Plus package. For further information, contact FairCom US at 573-445-6833, FairCom Europe at 39-035-773-464, FairCom Japan at 81-0592-29-7504 or FairCom Brazil at 55-11-3872-9802 or see www.faircom.com.

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