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1044.0. "Press Release" by BROKE::SERRA (You got it, we JOIN it....DBI) Fri Apr 05 1996 14:07

               O R A C L E   C O R P O R A T I O N

                          NEWS RELEASE


EDITORIAL CONTACT:

Stephen J. Berger
Oracle Corporation
(415) 506-2700

Dick Calandrella
Digital Equipment Corporation
(508) 467-2261



      ORACLE ACQUIRES DIGITAL'S DATABASE INTEGRATOR PRODUCTS

 Agreement Follows Rdb Acquisition From Digital In December 1994


REDWOOD SHORES, California (April 4, 1996) --- Oracle

Corporation today announced the acquisition of Digital's DB Integrator (DBI)
product family from Digital Equipment  Corporation. The product family includes
Digital's DB Integrator,  Digital's Data Distributor, and Digital's DB
Integrator Gateways.  The cash transaction for an undisclosed amount will
include the  transfer of the products, and associated engineering and support 
resources to Oracle's New England Development Center in Nashua,  New Hampshire,
established in December 1994 when Oracle purchased  the Rdb product business
from Digital. Engineering, Support and Products Become Part of Oracle

The DBI Products are a software family that provides  distributed database,
database replication, and query parallelism  to applications on Digital
platforms using the Rdb SQL language  and the Rdb ODBC interface. They also
include transparent  access to dozens of database management systems directly
and  in cooperation with third-party middleware products. Replication, Query
Parallelism, Distributed Database and Shared Data with Oracle7

"While there are companies using DBI independently of  Rdb, Oracle Rdb
customers are the primary users of these  products," notes Jim Steiner, senior
director of marketing for  Oracle's New England Development Center. "The
addition of  replication, parallel query and distributed database capabilities 
to Rdb will be a major benefit to our customers who can now meet  the growing
demands facing heterogeneous enterprise environments.  These products support
database customers who want the  high-availability, enterprise features in our
new Rdb7 release."

The gateway technology in DBI allows Rdb applications to share data with
Oracle7 databases. It allows applications that support Rdb, both server- and
client/server-based, to run against both Rdb and Oracle7.

"Rdb customers, through Oracle's Rdb Customer Advisory Council, have been
asking about DBI product family support for quite awhile," says Barry Wallis,
technical architecture manager for PacifiCare Health Systems. "The transition
of these products from Digital to Oracle makes perfect sense for both companies
and it's especially beneficial to the Rdb installed base. Now there will be a
continued tight integration between the DBI products and new versions of Rdb."

Acquisition Complements Oracle's Rdb7 Strategy

"As we continue to enhance Rdb, we are adding many new features with the
enterprise market in mind. We are also  enhancing Rdb and bringing greater
value to customers by making the information management technologies Oracle
offers available to the Rdb user," said Charles Rozwat, vice president of
development for Oracle's New England Development Center. "The  addition of the
DBI products strengthens our ability to bring  the same client/server
development, management, data access,  and application enabling technologies
available on both Rdb and  Oracle servers wherever possible."

Availability

The DBI products will continue to be available from Digital for a limited time,
and are planned for availability  directly from Oracle by the end of April
1996.

Oracle is the leading supplier of database technologies on Digital systems.
Rdb7 is the most widely used database system on Digital OpenVMS platforms and
is the choice of leading enterprises in manufacturing, financial institutions, 
telecommunications providers, and utilities.

Oracle Corporation is the world's largest supplier of  software for information
management, and the world's second  largest software company. With annual
revenues of more than $3.5 billion, The company offers its database, tools and 
application products along with related consulting, education,  and support
services, in more than 90 countries around the world. 

For more information about Oracle, please call  (415) 506-7000. Oracle's World
Wide Web address is  http://www.oracle.com/.


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Trademarks

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Oracle7,
Oracle Rdb, and Rdb7 are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. All 
other products or company names mentioned are used for 
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their 
respective owners.

 

    any word on presentation materials?
    
    PAK availability for Oracle internal use?
    
    /los

NOVA::SANTIAGO "I was a teenage net-random."          5 lines  10-APR-1996 09:51
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    any word on presentation materials?
    
    ***
    ***  3 out of 5 fact sheets are completed...pricing is not yet approved
    ***  
    *** fact sheets
            DataBase Integrator         should be available end of week
            Rdb Access Modules and Gateways    "  "
            Rdb Distributed Technology Suite
               Rdb Distributed Option          done
               Rdb Replication Option          done
               Rdb Parallel Query Option       done
    ***
    *** i believe the 3 fact sheets are now posted on the rdb web page..i
    ***  will check. 
    ***
    ***  there is a presentation that is being given at eoug, ?. tomorrow.
    ***  i will verify if that's available.
    ***
    *** 
    
    
    PAK availability for Oracle internal use?
    
    ***  we are waiting for the 'universal' paks from dec, should also
    *** happen this week. i'll post a note as soon as they arrive.
    ***  Which product paks do you need?
    
    thanks
      steve

Who will be responsible for the DBI Gateway for DSM ?

    I was kinda looking for a pointer to a .ppt or similar we can use; I an
    wait until the universal paks are available, primarily for the custom
    driver, sybase and rms
    
    /los

RE: .3
    
******Who will be responsible for the DBI Gateway for DSM ?
    
    TBD. Since we did not physically owned the gateway code, it was not
    moved to Oracle. There will be a meeting shortly to confirm product
    offering. The ideal solution is that we, Oracle, ship the Custom
    Drivers product to the customer and the DSM gateway modules, which are
    part of DSM, would be licensed thru Intersystems. 
    
    As soon as the issue is settled , we will post the terms.
    
    thanks
    
    Steve

     Hi all,
    
    any news about the PAK:s? I need a DBI-DEV  ASAP for a customer?
    
    	Regards
    
    	Peter Lindgren Oracle RDB Support Sweden

    
    We sent mail to Peter - there is no dbi-dev license anymore (as of
    dbi v3.1).  I'm not sure of the business arraingement between Digital
    and Oracle, but I can't post a pak in this notes conference.
    
    dan