uring the next six months Nico Spence, Chief Marketing Officer, plans to meet with BASIS resellers and developers to present an overview of BASIS's marketing strategy for the domestic market. The briefing topics include BASIS's simplified product pricing, maintenance policy (SAM), order processing, and the new partnership program, scheduled for launch in 2004. These sessions explain BASIS strategies and how they benefit resellers and customers. BASIS invites resellers to attend the morning session, which focuses on BASIS's support role in a resellers business. The afternoon briefing consists of product demonstrations, which include programming Database Independence with BASIS, new BASIS IDE features, and new BBj® features that use the latest technology to provide up-to-date business solutions. BASIS invites resellers and their customers to the afternoon session.

For additional details and to register visit www.basis.com/events/index.html, or call 800.423.1394.

echCon Europe 2003 features "real-life functionality" and presents the many choices for application deployment, which developers can use to enhance their applications and increase their return on investment.

As a TechCon Europe 2003 attendee you will.

• Hear how BASIS provides cross platform deployment options, such as Linux, for both GUI and CUI applications
• Witness live demonstrations of various ways of delivering BASIS solutions on the Web
• Experience first-hand what other developers are doing to enhance and extend the functionality of their applications
• Learn how to implement Web services with BASIS products
• Discover what you can do to increase your revenue
• Appreciate the value of the underlying Java technology of BBj
• Determine how you can get the most out of your application with the latest in BASIS technology
• Become familiar with the benefits of using the BASIS IDE, a modern software development tool, for developing new projects and maintaining older projects written in previous versions of the language
• See the latest features and functionality in (Visual) PRO/5® 4.02 and BBj 3.02