Base One International Corp. (BOIC) develops software for constructing database

Database management system

A database management system is a software package with computer programs that control the creation, maintenance, and use of a database. It allows organizations to conveniently develop databases for various applications by database administrators and other specialists. A database is an integrated...

 applications and distributed computing

Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

 systems. Headquartered in New York City

New York City

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, the company was founded in 1993 and expanded in 1997 through the founding of its subsidiary, Base One Software Pvt. Ltd., in Bangalore, India. Base One holds a number of U.S. patents related to its technologies for distributed computing and high-precision arithmetic.http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1334471.html

The company's principal product, the Base One Foundation Component Library

Base One Foundation Component Library

The Base One Foundation Component Library is a rapid application development toolkit for building secure, fault-tolerant, database applications on Windows and ASP.NET...

 (BFC), is a rapid application development

Rapid application development

Rapid application development is a software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself...

 (RAD) toolkit aimed at users of Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...

 in conjunction with any of the major commercial DBMS products from Microsoft

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

, Oracle

Oracle Database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

, IBM

IBM DB2

The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...

, Sybase

Sybase

Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....

, or MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

. Customers include the U.S. Government and Fortune 500

Fortune 500

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companies in finance, insurance, media, and communications.

External links

• Official corporate website
• IDC INSIGHT. Base One: Grid Computing for Database-Centric Applications, Earl Joseph, Ph.D., John Humphreys, September 2004. Accessed April 10, 2008.
• Second Venture. The Top 50 Emerging Companies voted by 140 Venture Capital Funds & Angel Investors, December 14, 2004. Accessed April 10, 2008.
• FinanceTech. Base One Shares at SIA, June 23, 2005. Accessed April 10, 2008.
• NYSIA. On the Grid: A Report on Base One International Corporation, December 1, 2005. Accessed April 10, 2008.