ORACLE ANNOUNCES DESIGNER/2000 WEBSERVER GENERATOR


Extends Productivity and Reliability of Enterprise Modeling Tool to Corporate Intranet Application Developers

Empowers Developers to Easily Support Migration and Coexistence Between Client/Server and Web Applications

AMSTERDAM/SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 1996-Oracle Corp. today announced the immediate availability of the Designer/2000 WebServer Generator, the first modeling tool to automatically generate Web applications. In combination with its existing client/server support, the new Web generation capability in Designer/2000 will enable developers to easily build applications for both client/server and web environments with no additional effort. This announcement was made internationally today at the European Oracle User Group (EOUG) in Amsterdam and DB EXPO in San Francisco.

"The lack of integration between Web development tools and enterprise servers has been a major obstacle for enterprise developers trying to build for and migrate to a corporate Intranet configuration," said Ian Thacker, senior vice president of Oracle's Designer/2000 product group. "Designer/2000's WebServer Generator is the only product that addresses this obstacle by leveraging tight integration with Oracle( Universal Server( to deliver dynamic data in both client/server and corporate Intranet environments."

Designer/2000 is Oracle's repository-based tool for modeling the business functions that underlie an application. Designer/2000 then automatically generates a running application which delivers database information that can be accessed either through a Developer/2000, Visual Basic or now, a dynamic HTML interface.

The Designer/2000 WebServer Generator delivers the same modeling and team productivity benefits as are achieved through its already available client/server generators. With the new Web functionality in Designer/2000, customers can model an application once and then easily deploy the application across the enterprise regardless of the departmental configuration of client/server or the newly emerging corporate Intranet.

In a related announcement made today, Oracle outlined its strategy for extending the advanced functionality of all its leading application development tools to corporate Intranet and public Internet developers. Oracle's development tools product line consists of Power Objects, Developer/2000, Designer/2000, and the new Oracle PowerBrowser. Together these products address the complete life cycle of corporate Intranet development.

Designer/2000 is available on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Pricing for the product is $3995 in the U.S. Supported customers of Designer/2000 and prior Oracle CASE releases are eligible to receive the upgrade at no charge.

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

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