Developer/2000 Delivers Portability with New Support for IBM OS/2 and Macintosh Oracle Enhances Platform Independence for the Professional REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced Developer/2000 for IBM OS/2 and Mac 68K, making Oracle's second generation client/server development tool the most portable enterprise-level 4GL environment on the market. Along with native support for Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.x, Motif character terminals and PowerMac operating environments, Developer/2000 also enables reports to be deployed on intranets and the Internet in HTML or Adobe's Portable Document Format. With the new version of Developer/2000 running on OS/2 (Warp and 2.1) and Mac 68K, thousands of developers and users worldwide will be able to use the powerful functionality of Developer/2000, the industry's leading 4GL tool. By providing scalable, multi-platform application development and support for heterogeneous GUIs, Developer/2000 alleviates the costs and complexities of cross-platform development, migration and maintenance. The Developer/2000 expanded portability enables professional developers and organizations to rapidly build sophisticated application solutions and deploy them on the platform of their choice, preserving corporations' investments in their installed operating environments. With native support for Windows, Motif, Macintosh, character-based platforms and now OS/2, Developer/2000 provides the best cross-platform deployment toolset available in the 4GL market. "Oracle's Developer/2000 for OS/2 Warp is an important tool to the Novus client/server reporting strategy," said Bill Floyd, vice president of Information Technology, Novus Services, Inc. "We are pleased that Oracle continues to support OS/2 Warp desktop and server operating systems in their database and related software product lines." "We are putting the power and productivity of Developer/2000 into the hands of OS/2 developers, while continuing to support Windows, Unix and Macintosh developers everywhere," said Sohaib Abbasi, senior vice president of Oracle's Tools Division. "Developer/2000 delivers the most powerful combination of workgroup-through-enterprise scalability, multi-tier application partitioning and operating system support available." "We are excited to have Oracle's premier client/server application development tool on OS/2 Warp," said John W. Thompson, general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Products. "Thousands of companies and development groups using OS/2 Warp can draw upon Developer/2000 to deliver the robust, scalable application development solutions they need." Developer/2000 support for Mac 68K is available this month, while support for OS/2 Warp is scheduled for general availability in the fourth quarter of 1996. Oracle's application development tools are used by over half a million developers worldwide. Developer/2000 is the first client/server development tool to deliver workgroup-through-enterprise scalability and the only tool on the market that uses the same programming language on both the client and the server. Core strengths, such as drag-and-drop application partitioning, support the development of highly scalable applications. Developer/2000 proved to be the strongest tool in InfoWorld's June 17, 1996, comparative review of enterprise level RAD tools. In Computerworld's I/S User Brand Preference survey for application development tools conducted in May 1996, Oracle's Developer/2000 placed first in four out of seven 4GL categories, while Designer/2000, Oracle's analysis, modeling and design tool, swept all seven CASE categories. Oracle Corp. is the world's second largest software company, and the largest supplier of software for information management. With annual revenues of more than $4.2 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, contact Oracle's headquarters at 415- 506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com/. Trademarks NOTE: Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Developer/2000 is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE Oracle Corp. /CONTACT: Marlena Fernandez of Oracle Corp., 415-506-8565; or David Eichberg of Applied Communications Corp., 415-375-8881/ (ORCL)