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RadioGrupo (RG) is a group of seven radio stations located in Aguascalientes, a city in the center of México with a population of one million. Founded in 1936, RG has an estimated 70% market share according to one recent survey. Microsistemas de Aguascalientes provides technology consulting services to a number of industries including radio broadcasting, government, and commerce.

RG needed to provide its radio stations a new level of control and sophistication to handle creating the contracts, scheduling the commercials as stipulated in the contracts, controlling the invoice generation for transmitted spots, collecting the invoices, reporting comprehensive information, and forecasting for the future. Because RG had no technical staff, they turned to a local consultant, José Luis Gómez Serrano from Microsistemas de Aguascalientes, to develop this new system. Given the requirements of this project, Microsistemas de Aguascalientes proposed to use FairCom technology. Mr. Gómez had used c-tree Plus and the c-tree Servers on several other projects with excellent results. He believed that this new project was perfectly suited to this technology.

As the team from Microsistemas de Aguascalientes worked on the traffic engine, they were pleased by the performance they achieved with FairCom's technology: a one-year contract (about 15 spots a day) could be programmed in a snap, at a rate of 170 scheduled spots per second. For each spot in a contract, the system must find a suitable location on the schedule, ensuring that the specific contract constraints are met.

The entire project was based on a three-tiered model: a graphical interface using Borland's VCL model, the business rules based heavily on the C++ object paradigm, and the server interaction using the c-tree Server. This strategy worked well, particularly when developing the finer elements of the system such as the assignment of the spots on the schedule. The ample c-tree Plus API gives the programmer an assortment of functions that make it easy, powerful, and efficient to manage a database in a complex situation.

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Follett Software Company utilizes FairCom technology as part of their Catalog Plus and Circulation Plus library automation systems. Catalog Plus offers powerful searching of entire library collections including books, periodicals, audio and video files, eBooks, and a host of other media.

Follett's Circulation Plus system is designed to minimize the work associated with circulation and inventory management by automating these tasks. This includes routine circulation tasks that are typically performed by hand such as checking-in and checking-out books, calculating fines, sending overdue notices, and processing renewals. Circulation Plus puts complete inventory control in the hands of the librarian.

The portability and flexibility that has been part of FairCom's reputation for over 20 years have been fundamentally important to FSC. c-tree Plus' native support for multiple platforms, including Windows, Novell Netware, and Apple Macintosh, means that no changes are required in the database code when moving an application to different operating systems. The c-tree Server's heterogeneous networking allows FSC's engineers to implement Catalog Plus and Circulation Plus on different server platforms while supporting clients using any combination of Windows and Mac operating systems. FairCom handles all data conversions between the various operating systems and allows FSC to concentrate on what its customers need from the application and how to deliver it most efficiently.

The c-tree Server's client/server architecture allows FSC to maximize performance since database operations take place on the Server machine, thus reducing network I/O common with other databases. Clients access the server only when requesting data and only the results travel across the network, not the entire data search detail. In addition, FairCom's full-featured transaction processing assures that vital data will be preserved even in the face of a catastrophic failure, such as a machine crash or power failure.

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