Presenting :  Business Rules! TM

When IBM discontinued the System-23 line, as they had several preceding business systems, a group of frustrated developers realized that they were spending more time porting legacy applications to new platforms than they were developing new systems. In order to give the small and medium sized application software houses an alternative to this constant re-coding, Workstation Basic was created as a platform-independent programming environment. It was envisioned as an environment that would be available on a variety of existing and future platforms and operating systems, that would allow developers to bring forward legacy System 36 Basic and System 23 applications, while constantly evolving to also provide the latest technologies for development of new systems. And evolve it has.

Business Rules! is the progeny of Workstation Basic. It will still support legacy applications and still maintains the emphasis on using minimal system resources that was so important early on. It has grown to incorporate many new technologies including advanced indexing, the ability to access platform-dependant devices directly with generic syntax calls, output spooling, externalization of functions (libraries), many platform-independent commands that mimic O.S. commands, Windows compatibility features and functionality, and much more. In upcoming releases, Business Rules! will offer capabilities such as additional ODBC functionality, access to Java objects, cross-compatibility with a variety of graphical development tools, and an extensive library of internal development tools.

Workstation Basic served the community of small and medium sized application houses for many years under the stewardship of ABC Development Systems, and later EMPHASYS SOFTWARE. In 1995, it was purchased by two of it’s original authors who made a renewed commitment to revitalizing the language so that it would continue to fulfil their original vision. Distributed today through ADS, a company with a long history in this arena, Business Rules! is the result of their commitment and skill. Business Rules!has the distinction of supporting legacy applications that are older than many of the programmers who are responsible for maintaining them today, while offering the capability to create state-of-the-art, highly maintainable applications to meet the demands of today’s information systems world.

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