Advent Consulting Announces Strategic Alliances with Leading Open Source 4GL/Web Services

1 January 1970

Advent Consulting, a leading open source technology consulting firm provides best-of-breed open source solutions and services, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with Xobas Software. Their combined efforts allow organization for rapid development and deployment of powerful, open source 4GL business applications.

"As a leading open source technology consulting firm provides mission critical, open source solutions for enterprises, Advent Consulting is very excited about the opportunities with this partnership", said Ed Chin, VP Business Development. "Organizations will be able to leverage Xobas open source 4GL/Web Services development tools and methodology, for rapid development and deployment of robust business applications, allowing existing infrastructure to more easily respond to changing business requirements and capture new markets", said Mr. Chin.

"Xobas-4GL is a new powerful open source 4GL cross platform environment designed for the rapid development and deployment of business applications. It is unique in its design that core modules of the environment can be configured to run as a Web Service. Advantage of this is that resources can be spread over diverse servers for a typical enterprise setup and that applications can be developed and run remotely over any Intranet or Internet connection. The Xobas-4GL environment can also be configured for single PC use without the need of running any Web Service, making it also an ideal environment for small businesses. Applications can be developed and maintained rapidly using the very efficient 4GL language command set, internal object editors and graphical user interface design tool. By adapting Xobas-4GL, Advent Consulting will be able to provide quality software solutions for every type of business organization.", said Bas Driessen, Managing Director of Xobas Software.

About Advent Consulting

Advent Consulting - an independent, open source technology consulting firm provides best-of-breed, integrated open source solutions that delivers cost savings, stability and performance required for companies embracing open source technology.

Professionals at Advent Consulting provide a range of services and supports include: open source technology consulting, integration, migration, customized development and support services.

To learn more about Advent Consulting’s focus, philosophy and open source solution offerings, visit: http://www.adventconsultants.com/

About Xobas Software

Xobas Software - an independent privately held open source software development company providing reliable quality software tools for cross platform development and deployment.

The current flagship product is Xobas-4GL, an integrated 4GL / Web Services composite environment for the development and deployment of business applications. Xobas-4GL differentiates from the traditional 4GL environments in the revolutionary way it has been engineered. All core modules that together form the Xobas-4GL environment, as the interface to database (RDBMS) systems, application repository or the Web Browser interface, can either be configured as a Web Service or configured to be called as a library. This gives maximum flexibility to the users of Xobas-4GL as the system can be setup and used over a network of diverse servers for enterprise usage, be setup as a standalone package for single PC usage or any mix in the middle. A native XML database is used for the storage of all the application objects and a powerful 4GL language, internal set of object editors and graphical user interface designer result in much faster development times then using languages as C/C++ or Java. Xobas-4GL applications are easy to deploy, maintain and change. The Xobas-4GL environment is portable across different platforms, either in a mix of Web Services on different platforms or all on the single platform. Current supported platforms include various major GNU/Linux distributions and MS-Windows (Cygwin).

For more information, please visit: http://www.xobas.com

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