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Thinking Machines Aligns with Red Brick to Provide Customer Discovery
Solutions Darwin Will Help Red Brick Customers Improve Return on Data
Warehousing Investment

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Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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BEDFORD, Mass., April 9 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Thinking
Machines Corporation, a leading provider of data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services, today announced a partnership with Red
Brick Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: REDB), a leading provider of relational
database products and service for data warehouse applications.

Darwin, the highly scalable, high-end data mining software from Thinking
Machines, will provide Red Brick customers with sophisticated data mining
algorithms, including decision trees, neural networks, genetic algorithms,
and memory-based reasoning. Each of these algorithms has been implemented
using proprietary parallel processing techniques, taking full advantage of
Thinking Machines' expertise as a former maker of massively parallel
supercomputers. The result is an ability to build more accurate models
faster and churn through large volumes of data at a fraction of the time
required by sequential solutions. In addition, Darwin enables customers to
build multiple models simultaneously. Combined, these capabilities
dramatically speed up the process of finding the optimal model for a
particular business problem.

Darwin provides a powerful solution for Red Brick customers that design
large, high-performance client/server relational database management
systems specifically for data mart and data warehousing applications. With
Darwin, the users will be able to delve into the vast amounts of
information stored in their data warehouses and data marts to discover
hidden patterns, trends and correlations that will, in turn, enable them to
make predictions that solve business problems.

"Our alliance with Red Brick will enable customers with any size data
warehouse to use the most appropriate data mining solution for their
needs," said Robert L. Doretti, president and CEO of Thinking Machines. "In
addition, Darwin's underlying technology will enable companies to learn
more about their customers and therefore, build rifle-shot strategies to
attract and retain them."

"It makes a lot of sense to me that these two vendors would work closely
together. Integrating Darwin with Red Brick warehousing couples a parallel
data mining tool with a parallel warehouse DBMS, enabling users to
effectively mine large amounts of data," said Herb Edelstein, president of
Two Crows Corporation. "It also adds additional algorithms so that Red
Brick customers can solve a wider range of data mining problems."

Founded in 1983, Thinking Machines Corporation revolutionized high-
performance computing with its parallel processing technology. Today,
Thinking Machines produces, markets and sells data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services. With offices worldwide, Thinking Machines
is headquartered in Bedford, Mass., USA. Thinking Machines can be reached
on the World Wide Web at http://www.think.com.

Red Brick Systems, Inc., based in Los Gatos, Calif., specializes in data
warehouse software products used for fast, accurate, and confident business
decision-making on large client/server databases, up to terabytes in size
with hundreds of millions to billions of records Information about Red
Brick is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.redbrick.com.

NOTE: All other products and company names mentioned are used for
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

SOURCE Thinking Machines Corporation

/CONTACT: Alison Holland of Thinking Machines Corp., 617-276-0400, ext.
5508 or [email protected], or Erin O'Sullivan of Marenghi & Associates,
617-239-0057 or [email protected]/ (REDB)
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Thinking Machines Joins Oracle Corp's Warehouse Technology Initiative
Darwin Data Mining Product Added to Oracle's Portfolio of Data Warehousing
Solutions

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Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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BEDFORD, Mass., April 9 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Thinking
Machines Corporation, a leading provider of data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services, today joined Oracle's Warehouse Technology
Initiative (WTI). WTI is designed to increase the quantity and quality of
warehousing solutions based on Oracle database technology, providing
greater choice of specialized tools and products optimized on Oracle
software, and streamlined support as customers build data warehouses.

Thinking Machines' Darwin high-end data mining software will be added to
Oracle's data warehouse solutions, enabling companies with large
Oracle-based data warehouses to harvest vital customer information.

"We are excited to be involved in WTI and demonstrate our commitment to the
data discovery marketplace," said Robert L. Doretti, president and CEO of
Thinking Machines. "WTI provides the forum in which to deliver a high
performance data mining solution to Oracle customers with large volumes of
data."

"Oracle is dedicated to providing a full range of best-of-breed data
warehousing solutions to our customers, and Darwin's parallel processing
approach and family of mining algorithms enhances our data mining
offerings," said Polly Sumner, vice president Worldwide Alliances, Oracle
Corp. "Data mining is an integral part of the data warehousing solution,
allowing Oracle users to analyze their customer data to better understand
their buying patterns and behaviors, resulting in more effective marketing
campaigns."

Thinking Machines, with its roots in parallel processing, designed Darwin
to churn through large volumes of data at a fraction of the time required
by sequential solutions. In addition Darwin enables customers to build
multiple models simultaneously. Combined, these capabilities dramatically
speed up the process of finding the optimal model for a particular business
problem.

Interest in data mining has been building because of the competitive
opportunity inherent in analyzing the enormous amounts of data accumulating
in corporate data warehouses. According to Aaron Zornes, executive vice
president of applications delivery services at META Group, the data mining
market in the U.S. will reach $200 million in 1997 and rise to $1.5 billion
by the year 2000.

Founded in 1983, Thinking Machines Corporation revolutionized high-
performance computing with its parallel processing technology. Today,
Thinking Machines produces, markets and sells data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services. With offices worldwide, Thinking Machines
is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Thinking Machines World
Wide Web address is http://www.think.com.

Oracle Alliance is a global business network that unites leading
information technology companies to deliver integrated customer solutions
for network computing. Partners have access to Oracle's premiere products
and services and are able to utilize vast technical, marketing and sales
support resources. With more than 7,000 members, Oracle Worldwide Alliance
is designed to foster relationships and maximize technologies for mutual
customer Worldwide and partner benefit. Additional information is available
at http://alliance.oracle.com.

NOTE: All other products and company names mentioned are used for
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

SOURCE Thinking Machines Corporation

/CONTACT: Alison Holland of Thinking Machines Corp., 617-276-0400, ext.
5508 or [email protected], or Erin O'Sullivan of Marenghi & Associates,
617-239-0057 or [email protected]/ (ORCL)
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Thinking Machines Teams with Sybase to Deliver Customer Discovery Solutions
Darwin Data Mining Product Enhances Sybase's Data Warehousing Strategy

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Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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BEDFORD, Mass., April 9 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Thinking
Machines Corporation, a leading provider of data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services, today announced a partnership with Sybase,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBS), a worldwide leader in client/server data warehousing
solutions.

Through this new partnership, Thinking Machines has joined Sybase's CODE
Partner Program. The CODE Partner Program is designed to foster synergy
between Sybase products and partner technology through cooperative
development, marketing and technical support programs.

Thinking Machines' premier data mining product, Darwin, is used by large
corporations to extract vital information from vast amounts of data in
corporate databases. Armed with a deeper understanding of their customers,
businesses can improve the accuracy and profitability of telemarketing,
direct mail, cross selling and other marketing programs.

"We are pleased with the opportunity to work with Sybase," said Robert L.
Doretti, president and CEO of Thinking Machines. "Darwin's ability to
exploit and support the speed and flexibility of Sybase's technology
enables corporations with large stores of data to gain the information they
need to attract, satisfy and keep high-quality customers in order to gain a
competitive advantage."

"Sybase customers are basing their competitiveness on interactive analysis
of their data, primarily by deploying our market-leading data mart server,
Sybase IQ," said Gary Steele, vice president and general manager of data
warehousing and middleware at Sybase, Inc. "We are enthusiastic to be
working with Thinking Machines to provide a joint solution that will expand
our customers ability to understand their customers."

Interest in data mining has been building because of the competitive
opportunity inherent in analyzing overwhelming amounts of data continually
accumulating in corporate databases. According to Gartner Group, a
prominent high technology market analyst and consulting firm, over 50
percent of the world's largest 1,000 corporations will be actively
leveraging corporate data for strategic advantage by the year 2000.

Founded in 1983, Thinking Machines Corporation revolutionized high-
performance computing with its parallel processing technology. Today,
Thinking Machines produces, markets and sells data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services. With offices worldwide, Thinking Machines
is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Thinking Machines World
Wide Web address is http://www.think.com.

Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in
distributed,open computing solutions with record revenues in 1996 of over
$1 billion. The company provides customers and partners with the software
and services to create business solutions for strategic, competitive
advantage. The company's product groups design and develop high
performance, end-to-end solutions including databases, middleware and
application development tools for client/server, Internet and Intranet
transaction processing and data mart and data warehousing applications. The
company's Internet addresses are http://www.sybase.com and
http://www.powersoft.com.

NOTE: All other products and company names mentioned are used for
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

SOURCE Thinking Machines Corporation

/CONTACT: Alison Holland of Thinking Machines Corp., 617-276-0400, ext.
5508 or [email protected], or Erin O'Sullivan of Marenghi & Associates,
617-239-0057 or [email protected]/ (SYBS)
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Thinking Machines Works With Informix To Provide Sophisticated Customer
Discovery Solutions Darwin Added to Informix's Impressive Line of Database
Solutions

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Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997
Source: PR Newswire
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BEDFORD, Mass., April 9 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Thinking
Machines Corporation, a leading provider of data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services, today announced a partnership with
Informix to deliver sophisticated data mining and warehousing solutions to
customers worldwide. Together, Thinking Machines and Informix will enable
users to gain greater intelligence for solving business problems.

Thinking Machines' data mining software, Darwin, will enhance Informix's
data warehousing solutions by offering a high-end data mining alternative
for those customers with large databases. Darwin enables those companies to
analyze vast amounts of information in order to get to know customers
better.

Darwin empowers corporations to build multiple models simultaneously and
churn through huge volumes of data at a fraction of the time required by
sequential solutions. Combined, these capabilities dramatically speed up
the process it takes to solve business problems and, in turn, increase
return on investment.

"Informix is a leader in database technology, and we are happy to be
working with them to offer customers the flexibility to customize
technology solutions," said Robert L. Doretti, president and CEO of
Thinking Machines. "Darwin, used in conjunction with Informix, will deliver
greater business intelligence to marketers without spending hours, or days,
processing information."

"Today corporate databases are more complex then ever, and end users are
searching for the right tools to manipulate data quickly and easily," said
Bruce Golden, vice president of the Data Warehousing Business Development
Unit at Informix. "This partnership with Thinking Machines is an effort to
offer users answers to predictive business problems without being bogged
down by technology."

Founded in 1983, Thinking Machines Corporation revolutionized high-
performance computing with its parallel processing technology. Today,
Thinking Machines produces, markets and sells data mining-based Customer
Discovery software and services. With offices worldwide, Thinking Machines
is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Thinking Machines' World
Wide Web address is http://www.think.com.

Informix Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: IFMX), based in Menlo Park, Calif.,
provides innovative database technology that enables the world's leading
corporations to manage and grow their business. Informix is widely
recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments
ranging from workgroups to very large OLTP and data warehouse applications.
Informix's database severs, application development tools, superior
customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the
forefront of many leading- edge information technology solution areas.
Informix's World Wide Web address is http://www.informix.com.

NOTE: All other products and company names mentioned are used for
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

SOURCE Thinking Machines Corporation

/CONTACT: Alison Holland of Thinking Machines Corp., 617-276-0400, ext.
5508 or [email protected], or Erin O'Sullivan of Marenghi & Associates,
617-239-0057 or [email protected]/ (IFMX)
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