An ADvantage interface tailored to a user's job profile Get the Empress ADvantage Ten years ago, Thames Computer Services made the strategic choice of putting the Empress RDBMS at the heart of its flagship product, ADvantage. The end result is a dynamic media buying, production and financial administration system for advertising agencies, studios, public relations companies and similar organizations.     ADvantage is designed for the user. For networked users, the multi-user system provides fast access to data in the Empress RDBMS via an intranet or Internet connection. The customized, mouse-driven, graphical user interface was developed using Empress 4GL and Multiview 2000, terminal emulation software by JSB Software Technologies (www.jsb.com). With convenient pop-up windows, ADvantage provides a wealth of consistent functionality and ease of use to all levels of an organization, simplifying the challenging administrative environment of an agency.     The fully integrated system can be used with a variety of networks and software applications including E-mail, spreadsheet, word processing and presentation packages. Data is seamless; new information is automatically distributed throughout the system. Data tracking is also performed, enabling the system to maintain a history of information.     Based on the Empress RDBMS, ADvantage is designed as an open system using UNIX and TCP/IP. It is available on multiple UNIX platforms including Linux, Solaris and SCO OpenServer. ADvantage also runs on diverse hardware, ranging from high performance servers supporting hundreds of users, to single-user PCs and MACs, to terminals.     Roger Perrin, Managing Director of Thames Computer Systems, states, "After thorough investigation of other databases, I put the sophisticated technology of the Empress RDBMS at the heart of ADvantage. Ten years later, it continues to be a reliable, advanced development environment that I am confident will serve us for years to come."     From media buying, to job and financial account management, ADvantage is a solid data management solution for companies needing efficient administration, tight financial control and timely information management. The ADvantage accounts suite is available to other system developers to integrate with their applications. For further information, email advantage@thames.co.uk or visit www.thames.co.uk.

64-Bit Computing on Empress Imagine the spectrum of possibilities of computing in a 64-bit environment. From the ability to perform high precision calculations to produce sharp, well-defined graphics, to large-scale data warehousing, to multimedia web development, 64-bit technology ensures an excitingly powerful application development environment.     For data intense applications, a 64-bit platform complemented by the high-performance Empress RDBMS, is a solid solution to your computing needs. Application developers can provide rapid data retrieval, address large amounts of memory, handle substantially larger files and process complex computations faster.     The ability to address large amounts of memory improves the performance of database operations. Developers can configure the entire RDBMS as an in-memory database management system. This ability to store vast data in- memory translates into faster data access times since memory access is much quicker than disk access.     Empress RDBMS V8.20 is now available on several major 64-bit UNIX operating systems. Compaq's TRU64 UNIX Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX 11.00 SGI's IRIX 6.5 Sun's Solaris 7     File size capabilities for Empress RDBMS running on a 64-bit operating system far exceed the 2 GB limit of a 32-bit operating system. Empress's ability to handle much larger files and store and retrieve a variety of complex data types, makes it ideal for any application that requires the quick handling of a diverse multimedia data. In addition, the maximum number of records per Empress database table and the maximum size of each record significantly increases.

For information on the products or companies covered in this newsletter, please contact Empress Software by telephone, fax, or e-mail, using any of the numbers listed below:

Empress Software Inc. 6401 Golden Triangle Drive Greenbelt, Maryland USA 20770 Tel: (301) 220-1919 Fax: (301) 220-1997 E-mail: sales@empress.com

Empress Software Inc. 3100 Steeles Avenue East Markham, Ontario Canada L3R 8T3 Tel: (905) 513-8888 Fax: (905) 513-1668 E-mail: sales@empress.com