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1. 1. Buying and Selling Businesses

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   Published on: 12/22/2007   Last Visited: 12/22/2007

   David T. Annis
   
   David Annis holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Cornell University. In addition to regular brokerage activities David specializes in identifying strategic acquisitions for private equity groups. Before joining Merfeld & Schine, David acted as principal in both the acquisition and sale of businesses. David has worked in fields as diverse as molecular cardiology, information technology management, software and website development, and legal administration.

2. 2. The Annis Group Builds E-Business on BASIS

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   Published on: 3/30/2001   Last Visited: 2/1/2006

   David Annis, Vice President of The Annis Group, had a hunch the Web was going to matter some day, and he persuaded the ICSC, one of his clients, to give it a try.
   
   Today, The Annis Group has built or is in the process of building 125 Web sites. Just about all of them are built with BASIS products.
   
   The ICSC site was first built with PERL, C and BBx®. "BBx was a lot easier to maintain and worked faster than PERL or C," David said. Since 1994, all of the C and most of the PERL code has been replaced with BBx.
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   It's a low-cost way of serving the Customer better," David explained.
   
   Most of the sites The Annis Group builds are designed to provide automated services over the Web. David believes the firm's best work is done for associations, such as the ICSC and the Direct Marketing Association.
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   David likes to use BASIS' Basic Web Utility, modified and extended by The Annis Group, to link the user to databases. "Anything you can do in the database, you can now do on the Web," David said. "Database-driven sites are better than static sites. BBx is a fast way of getting there."
   
   For David, fast development is essential. The ICSC site took 90 days to build. A Web-based shopping cart for American Gourmet (www.agourmet.com), a specialty foods business, took 30 days.
   
   "There's nothing hard about it. You need to pick up how the Web works - things like HTTP and SSL - but it's no harder than networking printers," David said.
   
   The hard part, David said, comes before you write a line of code.
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   Once the process begins, David says, the client will often discover he or she isn't at all sure what the goal is. Helping clients understand that is a big part of the developer's job.
   
   "You have to keep in mind you're entering a new business," David said. "This is a new way to sell, service and gather information. I'm almost building a parallel business on the Web, sometimes the entire business on the Web. You have to think it through just as you would any new business."
   
   The next step for The Annis Group is implementing BBj. David is grateful the investment he's made in BBx will be protected as he migrates his utilities and applications to BBj. He's looking forward to being able to deploy Business Basic programs as applets in Web browsers, using BBj. Since Java is Web-centric by nature, The Annis Group expects BBj applications to be well-behaved residents of the Web. The Annis Group programming staff is also beginning to tackle Java programming.
   
   David is excited about the prospect of integrating Java objects into BBj, taking advantage of the power of each programming language in the body of the same program. "We expect to get the best of both worlds," he says.

3. 3. www.privateequityaddons.com

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   Published on: 3/7/2007   Last Visited: 3/7/2007

   David T. Annis
   
   David Annis holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Cornell University. In addition to regular brokerage activities David specializes in identifying strategic acquisitions for private equity groups. Before joining Merfeld & Schine, David acted as principle in both the acquisition and sale of businesses. David has worked in fields as diverse as molecular cardiology, information technology management, software and website development, and legal administration.