4D supports Sophisticated Circuits' UpBeat Technology for 4D Developers

June 5, 2001. San Jose, CA.

4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th Dimension v6.7 RAD/RDBMS Environment and WebSTAR Server Suite 4.4, today announced their support of Sophisticated Circuits' UpBeat, technology plug-in for the 4D Developer community. The 4D UpBeat Plug-in will now provide a way for 4D Developers to conveniently monitor the health and well being of their software processes from inside the 4D application themselves. 4D will include the 4D UpBeat Plug-in on future developer CD distributions.

"4D is focused on providing tools for the efficient deployment of successful applications," said Brendan Coveney, president and CEO, 4D, Inc. "Sophisticated Circuits' technology gives our 4D developers a competitive advantage by providing the ability to deploy solid solutions with lower ongoing costs and a higher return on investment."

UpBeat is Sophisticated Circuits' patent pending technology, which allows subtle problems within an application to be caught and responded to without waiting for either complete failure or human intervention. The 4D UpBeat Plug-in can be downloaded from the Sophisticated Circuits web site at: <http://www.sophisticated.com/products/>

"We are extremely pleased to make UpBeat easily accessible to the 4D developer community, and especially gratified to continue our successful relationship with 4D," said Jonathan Feinstein of Sophisticated Circuits. "By making it easier for developers to integrate our industry leading reliability technologies into their products it makes the system administrators job easier and the cost of support lower, benefiting both the developer and the end-user."

About 4D v6.7.x

4D Version 6.7 offers application developers a truly standard-setting, professional suite of application and web development tools for both Windows and Mac. Meticulously engineered, 4D Version 6.7 builds upon an award-winning legacy of over fifteen years of relational database and rapid application development expertise providing unprecedented ease and flexibility. The rich development and multi-threaded environment is immediately realized yielding gratifying results through the efficiency of code-conserving components and dynamic form creation. 4D Version 6.7 boasts new and mature web technology along with important and riveting GUI enhancement. For those new to 4D and for the established 4D developer, Version 6.7 offers the most compelling development environment on the market. Here are a few of the new features in the 4D v6.7.x product line: HTML 4.0 and CSS1, SSL, Full CGI Support, XML, WML, Form Inheritance, dynamic forms, components, theme support, all-new 4D Tools, automatic transportation and many new commands.

For more information on 4D v6.7.x visit http://www.4D.com/67

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About 4D, Inc.

Located in San Jose, California, 4D Inc. is the US distributor of 4th Dimension and the 4D family of products, which has set the relational database standard for over fifteen years. 4D Inc., formerly 4D, Inc., publishes a tightly integrated suite of professional, cross-platform web-embedded development tools. 4D Inc is a 100 percent owned subsidiary of 4D SA, formerly ACI SA. StarNine Technologies is a 100 percent subsidiary of 4D, Inc. StarNine publishes the award winning WebSTAR Server Suite 4.2, a complete set of four high-performance servers in one easy to use application.

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