A particular focus of BSn is upon distributed information management solutions based upon Open (public) architectures, international (ISO) and Internet (IETF) standards: Z39.50, SGML/HyTime, CORBA and HTTP. Open International Standards: SGML/XML and NISO Z39.50 over TCP/IP and HTML/HTTP.

In addition to its commercial products and services, BSn has since its founding actively supported the development and deployment of GILS, Z39.50 and WWW catalogue services and technologies. Together with CNIDR, Etymon Systems, Island Edge Research and A/WWW Enterprises we have freely released code to the public to advance the development of these services under a liberal license. This code, particulary the Isearch public doctypes is the most widely deployed Z39.50 server solution in the Internet today with servers in over 100 countries. Among the users are Netscape's Open Directory, The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), US Patent and Trademark Office, NASA's Global Change Master Directory, The American Astronomical Society, U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Clearinghouse... The US Pentagon, The US Department of Commerce, US Environmental Protection Agency,... Library of Congress, University Science and Technology Librarians Group (UK)... Berkeley Art Museum+Pacific Film Archive, Museum Computer Network,...

Isearch's "big brother" IB 2.0 features a factor of over 100s of times better performance (on a P-II, 200 MB of HTML can be indexed in as little as 20 minutes and search typically measured in tiny fractions of a second), better I/O and resource utilization (including suitability for slow storage media such as CDROM) as well as significant enhancements... Just a few of our projects/customers: Modellversuch der Bund-Länderkommission für Bildungsplanung und Forschungsförderung, Medien-Informations-System (MIS) des Landesmedienzentrum Rheinland-Pfalz, Koblenz (LMZ), Landesfilmdienst Rheinland-Pfalz Mainz, Medienpädagogisches Zentrum Land Brandenburg, Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM), Flimmo, Institut Jugend Film Fernsehen, European Union/Commission Européénne EUROMEDIA Project,.... And partner companies in the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland, the Middle East, Asia and Australia are building systems based upon IB 2.0 for libraries, museums, publishers and...

The New Rules of the Game for the Next Milenium: BSn's Project Z3 is set to redefine the price point with a new range of distributed S/R "plug-and-play" network appliances to be released in 1999.
The fast speed of IB 2.0's engine combined with the decline in the cost of hardware now makes possible information management products in a whole range of applications previously prohibitively expensive. There is no reason why high performace search/retrieval solutions should be so expensive. Even on low cost hardware one can today with IB 2.0 manage gigabytes of data.

IB 2.0's scalable and multiplatform design means that the software goes where you are going: One can start on appliances or low cost PC hardware and as needs develop dimension all the way up to distributed clusters supporting S/R on Terabytes.

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