Option Provides Low Cost Deployment with High Reliability

BuyDesign™ Integrator and the underlying TDCI Integration Server™ Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution are now available for use with the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) as an alternative to the regular editions of Microsoft SQL Server. Since MDSE is distributed royalty-free along with Integration server, this lowers the total deployment cost for Integrator users who do not need the advanced capabilities provided by SQL Server.

MSDE 2000 is a royalty-free, redistributable database engine that is fully compatible with SQL Server. MSDE 2000 is designed to run on Microsoft Windows® 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation version 4.0 (with Service Pack 5 or later), and Windows 2000 Professional as an embedded database for applications that require a local database engine. It supports up to 2 gigabytes (GB) per database - enough for typical TDCI EAI deployments. There is a seamless upgrade path from MSDE 2000 to SQL Server if an application grows beyond the storage and scalability limits of MSDE 2000.

MSDE 2000 is based on core SQL Server technology. With support for single- and dual-processor desktop computers, MSDE 2000 is a reliable storage engine and query processor for desktop extensions of enterprise applications. The common technology base shared between SQL Server and MSDE 2000 enables developers like TDCI to build applications that can scale seamlessly from portable computers to multiprocessor clusters.

Designed to run in the background, supporting transactional desktop applications, MSDE 2000 does not have its own user interface (UI) or tools. Users interact with MSDE 2000 through the application in which it is embedded. MSDE 2000 is packaged in a self-extracting archive for ease of distribution and embedding.

For more information about BuyDesign Integrator and the TDCI Integration Server, contact Shelley Horn at shorn@tdci.com or 614-781-2325, x119.

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