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