"AngelBase holds the potential to revolutionize the computer industry through a massive paradigm shift which fundamentally changes the manner in which computer systems are programmed and used... The new methods introduced by Mr. Emerson are extremely powerful, and hold the potential to drastically reduce software development time and costs, dramatically empower computer users and increase computer performance... To my knowledge nothing like AngelBase exists even on the drawing boards of any company. If successfully implemented and marketed, AngelBase could become the industry standard, gradually replacing existing database platforms, and [Mr. Emerson's organization] could emerge as the computer industry leader."

—Dean Guida, CEO, Infragistics Corporation, East Windsor, New Jersey (Infragistics.com Clicking here opens a pop-up.)

"The key innovation is the expressiveness and rigor of the AngelBase model and the conceptual framework that supports this model. Other database products force the user to build hand-crafted pieces of code to describe rules directly expressible in the AngelBase model. The net result: not only is the model in AngelBase easier to understand, but it is much less likely to contain errors. AngelBase users will be able to visualize and understand data because of contextual information. Users can formulate questions interactively. Most data will be immediately available to the user. This creates the possibility of data interaction, where users view and manipulate data in order to understand it. AngelBase will improve performance in both data storage and network transmission... I am greatly excited about the possibilities that AngelBase has for achieving better quality, lower cost software systems."

—Anthony Karrer, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, TechEmpower, Inc, El Segundo, California (TechEmpower.com Clicking here opens a pop-up.); formerly Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

"Expert critics who fail to grasp the significance of AngelBase don't recognize that its greatest power is that it is holistic. Doctors who reject non-allopathic medicine suffer from a similar misunder-standing. To create genuine health, one must recognize that all the elements of the body are holistically integrated. AngelBase is designed to holistically integrate all the elements of a computer system, and that has never been done before."

—Lubomir Bic, Ph.D., Professor of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, past Chairman of the department.

"The biggest obstacle to realizing the full potential benefit of computer technology is the difficulty in directing applications to do what the user wants. With each new round of updates, we are constrained to function ever more narrowly through pathways determined by designers who are inexperienced with the diversity of end uses. A change in the foundation of the edifice, the database system, is needed and inevitable. AngelBase promises to bring to the user the transparency and background accessibility that is needed, and clearly incorporates technical principles that will make this possible. My lifelong acquaintance with Mark has consistently shown that he realizes goals once set, and I have no doubt he and his team will do so with AngelBase."

—Adrian Juncosa, Ph.D., Independent Biological Consultant, Truckee, California

"What became clear to me at yesterday's demo of AngelBase System 1, Mark, is that as you have approached the obstacles to success, answers and solutions have delivered themselves to your front door when you were ready for the solutions to appear. Astounding how Spirit works, is it not? And that is what I have become most impressed with — the workings here of Spirit and your ability to accept those workings.

"Your audience contained a full-spectrum of people, from scientists to teenagers, from computer mavens to Internet newbies. The reviews were unanimous — what we all saw was impressive, to say the least. A day later, I am in a state of mild shock and I keep asking myself, did I actually see what I thought I saw? Did I see the most powerful, yet elegantly simple, software development tool on the planet? I feel that I have now become one of those people who witness an historic event, a watershed in human history, and spend years attempting to fully explain the significance of what they participated in.

"Oh how the historians will memorialize that day! 'There upon a wind-swept peak that looked down upon the entire Los Angeles basin, a man and his sons labored tirelessly, inspired by unseen forces and encouraged by friends and small investors. For it was there that the foundations of modern computing were to be laid upon that solid bedrock known as the AngelBase Technology.' "

—Larry Zehnder, Independent Consulting Engineer, Los Angeles, California

"AngelBase provides application development with powerful high level tools. It will make it possible for the first time for end users, who are the domain experts, to directly develop or extend applications to suit their needs. AngelBase allows dynamic changes by the user to the application's behavior at runtime, which opens new horizons in computing. Design through prototyping, ability to play "what-if" games to tune the application, and other techniques, which are currently very difficult to achieve, will become reality."

—Eitan Sadeh, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, California State University at Fullerton.

"AngelBase has the earmark of a real watershed in software understanding. By identifying subtleties of the software problem space, and providing a handle to explicitly deal with these subtleties, AngelBase removes, a priori, sources of error, confusion and ambiguity. The result is a robust and yet flexible framework fit to define and tackle the mega software problems of the future. I have been associated with AngelBase as an advisor almost since its inception and must say the evolution and maturity of the project, with its limited resources, has been extraordinary."

—James Wray, Ph.D., Physicist. Optical Physics Company, Calabasas, California.

"The result of AngelBase's dynamism will be unprecedented empowerment of all classes of users. From the top to the bottom of the corporate food chain, people will be thrilled to use not the system but our system...

"This may all seem too good to be true, but it probably isn't. The many innovations in the AngelBase Technical Treatise make it quite feasible...

"This is not just a revolution in information technology, but a revolution in the way business is done. The market potential for this software is staggering; it goes way beyond DBMS... The only limitation on the future of AngelBase will be the imaginations of its designers.

"At the moment, AngelBase is the product of one designer, and there doesn't seem to be much limit to his imagination. I've known Mark Emerson for 22 years. His scientific brilliance is aptly demonstrated in his technical treatise, his entrepreneurial acumen in his business plans. As these qualities stand on his work alone, I will attest here only to his boundless energy, impeccable ethics, warm heart and expansive mind. I consider AngelBase to be a towering work of the human spirit. It came from a towering spirit."

—Cyril Charles Young, Independent Database Consultant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

[Note: Mr. Young's letter was dated June 1996. Since 2002, AngelBase has become "the product of three designers"— Mark, David and Jonathan Emerson.]