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Homebulletgrey.gifCompanybulletgrey.gifPress Releasesbulletgrey.gifNovember 11, 1999 Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SUBJECT:

New Product Launch: FairCom® Corporation announces release of the FairCom® ODBC Driver™ c-tree® V4.3 Edition for the popular legacy c-tree file handler

Contact:

Tamra Brown, Grant Robbennolt

FairCom Corporation (573) 445-6833

Columbia, MO — November 11, 1999 — FairCom Corporation announced today a new product launch geared towards FairCom's popular legacy database, the c-tree® File Handler. The product, FairCom ODBC Driver -- c-tree V4.3 Edition is targeted to the thousands of c-tree-based applications developed world-wide in the past 15 years. According to Randal Hoff, FairCom's Manager, Commercial Products, "The immense popularity of the c-tree File Handler fueled many successful applications in the 80's that are still in use today. Most of these applications were developed prior to the graphical user interface tools (GUIs) that are so popular today. The availability of the ODBC technology for this platform makes an attractive vehicle for customers to get an easy to use graphical interface over their data through popular tools such as Microsoft Excel or Seagate's Crystal Reports™."

The FairCom® ODBC Driver - c-tree V4.3 Edition is based on single-tier driver technology which indicates all of the program logic necessary to handle requests from a front-end application is contained within the driver itself, including an SQL interpreter. The ODBC compliant application uses the FairCom Driver to access c-tree data files via the traditional c-tree ISAM API. All 32 bit versions of Windows including Windows NT and Windows 2000 are supported by this Driver. Additionally, applications that store their data on Big Endian/Little Endian (e.g., low/high) based platforms (e.g., Windows and Intel based Unix operating systems) will be able to provide a 32 bit Windows front end into this legacy data. By utilizing the heterogeneous technology built into FairCom's c-tree File Handler, customers with Unix based systems will be able to easily query their data from any 32 bit Windows, ODBC compliant application.

The FairCom ODBC Driver - c-tree V4.3 Edition is priced separately for end-user and for FairCom developer's who wish to deploy directly to their customers. Pricing information is available at www.faircom.com. c-tree Plus sells for $895 with full C source code, no royalties, 26+ free development servers and Development ODBC and Crystal Report® Drivers. Full support for over 25 platforms from Windows to Macintosh is included with each package.

FairCom has provided software engineers with commercial database solutions since 1979. Today FairCom services customers worldwide with corporate offices in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Italy. For more information on OEM licensing opportunities, contact FairCom Corporation in the US at 800.234.8180; in Europe at +39.035.773.464; Japan at +81.0592.29.7504; Brazil at +55.11.3872.9802, or see www.faircom.com.

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RadioGrupo (RG) is a group of seven radio stations located in Aguascalientes, a city in the center of México with a population of one million. Founded in 1936, RG has an estimated 70% market share according to one recent survey. Microsistemas de Aguascalientes provides technology consulting services to a number of industries including radio broadcasting, government, and commerce.

RG needed to provide its radio stations a new level of control and sophistication to handle creating the contracts, scheduling the commercials as stipulated in the contracts, controlling the invoice generation for transmitted spots, collecting the invoices, reporting comprehensive information, and forecasting for the future. Because RG had no technical staff, they turned to a local consultant, José Luis Gómez Serrano from Microsistemas de Aguascalientes, to develop this new system. Given the requirements of this project, Microsistemas de Aguascalientes proposed to use FairCom technology. Mr. Gómez had used c-tree Plus and the c-tree Servers on several other projects with excellent results. He believed that this new project was perfectly suited to this technology.

As the team from Microsistemas de Aguascalientes worked on the traffic engine, they were pleased by the performance they achieved with FairCom's technology: a one-year contract (about 15 spots a day) could be programmed in a snap, at a rate of 170 scheduled spots per second. For each spot in a contract, the system must find a suitable location on the schedule, ensuring that the specific contract constraints are met.

The entire project was based on a three-tiered model: a graphical interface using Borland's VCL model, the business rules based heavily on the C++ object paradigm, and the server interaction using the c-tree Server. This strategy worked well, particularly when developing the finer elements of the system such as the assignment of the spots on the schedule. The ample c-tree Plus API gives the programmer an assortment of functions that make it easy, powerful, and efficient to manage a database in a complex situation.

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