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With the granting of an additional U.S. patent, Base One continues to build the case for its transactional Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Base One International Corporation, a leading supplier of rapid application development software for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, has received another U.S. Patent for its high-performance database technology. This patent covers a method of constructing fault tolerant, loosely-coupled services, using databases from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Sybase, and MySQL. Base One's unique, "database-centric" design simplifies application programming, while providing a higher degree of reliability, efficiency, and scalability than conventional approaches to distributed processing. Cluster and grid computing systems traditionally have relied upon a layer of message queuing technologies to distribute and coordinate work across multiple processors. In mission-critical database applications, it becomes necessary to introduce a global transaction monitor, which can significantly reduce performance and scalability. The Base One Foundation Component Library (BFC) eliminates the need for specialized messaging functions, enabling distributed processing queues to be managed more reliably and efficiently, without the drawbacks of a global transaction monitor. "What we've done is to exploit the core strengths of today's commercial database systems, especially with regard to efficient transaction processing," said Steven Asherman, President and Chief Technology Officer of Base One. "By devising a service-oriented architecture that addresses end-to-end transactional integrity, we've made it much easier and less expensive to build highly reliable, large-scale applications." BFC is a comprehensive RAD framework of components and tools for building web and Windows database applications, as well as back office processing and data interchange between systems. Employing a distinctive, cross-platform data dictionary, it provides enhanced security, optimization, and maintainability, making it easier and quicker to develop robust, scalable applications. For over ten years, Base One customers have successfully used BFC for low cost, database-intensive, distributed computing.