Base One International

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Base One International Corporation
Company typePrivate
IndustryComputer software
Founded1993
Defunct2014 (2014)
HeadquartersNew York City
ProductsBFC, Base One Number Class
ServicesBase One Consulting
Websitewww.boic.com

Base One International Corp. was an American company that specialized in developing software for constructing database applications and distributed computing systems. Headquartered in New York City, the company was founded in 1993 and expanded in 1997 through the founding of its subsidiary, Base One Software Pvt. Ltd., in Bangalore, India.[1] Base One held a number of U.S. patents related to its technologies for distributed computing and high-precision arithmetic.[2]

The company is most known for its Base One Foundation Component Library (BFC) product, which was a rapid application development (RAD) toolkit aimed at users of Microsoft Visual Studio in conjunction with any of the major commercial DBMS products from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM Db2, Sybase, or MySQL.[3]

In 2014, Base One International sold its intellectual property to Content Galaxy Inc. and closed operations.[4]

  1. ^ "About Base One". Base One International Corp. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
  2. ^ GRIDtoday. Patent Granted for Database-Centric Distributed Computing, March 26, 2007. Accessed October 4, 2007.
  3. ^ "Four Hundred Stuff-DB2/400: The Heart of a Supercomputer Cluster?". Itjungle.com. 2004-07-27. Archived from the original on 2012-06-18. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
  4. ^ "President's note". boic.com. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.