Ease of Implementation

• Simplified installation
• Graphic environment
• Clear syntax
• Only two executables across the entire product line

Completely Integrated

• A single environment from creation to execution
• Relational & transactional database
• IDE
• Language
• Application server
• HTTP server
• SQL server
• Numerous helpers and extensions
• Connectivity

More Productivity

• Intuitive Method Editor
• Pre-defined form objects
• Override default behavior
• High-level, event-driven language
• Reusability of code

Agile Development

• Flexible data structure
• Debugging and modification on the fly
• Real-time compilation
• Modular component achitecture
• Team development

Easy Application Generation

• Double-clickable applications
• Client/Server applications
• Web applications with integrated database and HTTP server
• True application server

Open Standards

• SQL
• Unicode
• XML
• Native management of graphic formats
• Web standards
• much more...

Easy Maintenance

• Integrated backup
• Automatic crash recovery
• "Zero Administration"
• Automatic updating
• Easy version deployment

Cross-Platform

• Windows XP, Vista, 2003 Server, Mac OS X
• Cross-platform stylesheets
• Simultaneous connection by clients on different operating systems
• No need to convert source code or data

Scalability

• A project can go from 1 to 32,000 tables, without stopping its operation
• Go from standalone to hundreds of users, locally or on the Web, without changing any source code
• Be autonomous while integrating with other systems

Economic Benefits

• No need of a server system
• Free standalone deployment
• Discount for concurrent users
• Complete development environment
• Unlimited SQL access based on number of cores/processors
• Simplified administration
• Fewer development and support resources necessary

A Quick Study

• No special prerequisites
• Usable results from your first steps
• Intuitive language and development environment
• Commitment to standards
• No difficulty at all for anyone with solid computer abilities