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- Letter From the President :
-
- Dear Prospective Modem Base Pro Customer:
-
- Thank you for your interest in Modem Base Pro. Thousands of man hours and
- years of technology have gone into bringing you a state of the art
- communication package and database management system that can be used
- effectively and reliably on-line.
-
- When designing Modem Base Pro, several obstacles were at hand. We needed a
- DOOR INTERFACE that could be used on a variety of BBS software and various
- hardware platforms. Supporting only standard communication ports in a door
- software package, just doesn't cut it. Modem Base Pro also includes support
- for non-standard communication ports, fossil, and digiboard drivers. Our
- DOOR INTERFACE will support most BBS programs and allow you to use
- information passed from your BBS to help manage your database on-line.
-
- Prior to the release of Modem Base Pro, the standard response to putting a
- database on-line was to purchase a database program, such as Paradox, dBase,
- R:BASE, Alpha IV, Clipper or along those lines and use a popular product
- such as DOORWAY by Marshall Dudley. Using DOORWAY you could run your DOS
- application on-line. This posed several unsurmountable problems for many
- Sysops, however. Using DOORWAY, callers needed to operate communication
- programs that supported DOORWAY MODE and most programs that SHIP from modem
- manufacturers DO NOT. There was a severe learning curve involved and often
- about a half hour of intervention from the Sysop was needed to get an
- inexperienced caller up to speed. Additional problems of security were
- often a fatal issue. Sysops found it difficult to utilize information from
- DOOR system files. It was very hard to restrict access to certain data and
- in most cases the projects were canned after wasting countless dollars and
- man hours.
-
- Enter Modem Base Pro. Modem Base Pro supports ANSI and NON-ANSI graphic
- callers and offers a LOWEST DENOMINATOR approach in which to build upon as
- a solution to these problems. Modem Base Pro interacts directly with your
- BBS software to offer security at a variety of levels by keeping track of
- who owns which record in the database. The Sysop has complete
- customizational control of the database. Modem Base Pro is not intended to
- replace your existing database management programs, but supplement them by
- offering an on-line interface to new or existing databases. Modem Base
- Pro ADAPTS to your database dynamically offering virtually unlimited
- potential and flexibility.
-
- The future of Modem Base Pro is also exciting. As you read this we are
- hard at work developing Release 2.0 which we will debut at the next
- ONE BBSCON convention in Colorado this summer. (Look for our Booth,
- next to Mustang Software). Some things on the development list are
- customizable on-screen display forms for callers supporting ANSI graphics.
- Extended remote database control with our MODEM BASE REMOTE terminal
- program. Stand-Alone capability with a built in HOST MODE. An enhancement
- to our Modem Base Manage Utility (which is included FREE with Modem Base
- Pro) which will rival other commercial DBMS programs.
-
- Developing Modem Base Pro was exciting for us. We had no other competing
- on-line product in which to compare a standard to. In essence, we created
- our own standard which, using our Modem Base Composer, can "hand hold" a
- Sysop into putting a database on-line with minimal DBMS skills, but remain
- powerful enough for even the advanced programmer and maintain full dBase III
- compatibility. Based on the tremendous positive response from our customers
- using Modem Base Pro, we have accomplished our goals set forth for Release
- 1.x. We look forward to the evolution of Modem Base Pro and it's emergence
- in the industry as a leading on-line DBMS product.
-
-
- Sincerely
-
- James M. Pierce
- President
- Integrated Solutions
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