Amdahl integrates Legent LDM/XP(T) database products with Xplorer 2000 providing customers with enterprise data management and functional access.

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1994--Legent Corp. (NASDAQ: LGNT) and Amdahl Corporation today announced that Amdahl has licensed applications from Legent's LDM/XP(T) family of legacy database migration products for integration with its Xplorer 2000(T) Series massively parallel database servers.

Xplorer 2000 meets customer requirements for high-end decision support systems (DSS) solutions, and is an integrated offering that combines LDM/XP's LD-Extraction(T) and LDM/XP's LD-Conversion(T) with nCUBE's parallel processing technology, ORACLE7 Parallel Server relational database software, and data access applications from Information Builders. The Xplorer 2000 database servers make valuable enterprise data an integral part of strategic business decision-making by providing rapid access to large amounts of data. The renewable, one-year license and distribution agreement enables Amdahl to resell the licensed technology worldwide as part of its Xplorer 2000 Series.

Xplorer 2000 uses Legent's LDM/XP's LD-Extraction to extract data from IBM's DB2 and VSAM sources, and LDM/XP's LD-Conversion to convert the data to a format readable by the target database. The Xplorer 2000 Series uses ORACLE7 relational database software as its target database. The Xplorer 2000 database servers are compatible with both System/390 and open systems environments.

"The Xplorer 2000 Series creates a strong solution that will enable customers to make more effective use of corporate data," said Dale Phelps, general manager of Legent's database products business unit. "We are excited to be working with Amdahl on Xplorer 2000, and are very confident that its well established worldwide sales force will help increase LDM/XP's installed base."

"The Legent family of legacy database migration products will give Xplorer customers the ability to exploit essential enterprise data," said Michael A.Taylor, vice president of Strategy and New Business at Amdahl. "This agreement emphasizes Amdahl's commitment to bring powerful software tools to our customers on the Xplorer 2000 platform."

Functionality and User Benefits

With the Legent LD-Extraction and LD-Conversion components of the Xplorer 2000 Series, customers can efficiently extract and convert host-based data and upload this data to the Xplorer 2000 database servers.

The Xplorer 2000 Seriesprovides users with wider and faster access to enterprise data to help speed fundamental business processes such as decision making, enhancing sales productivity, promoting marketing effectiveness, improving quality and cutting costs.

The LDM/XP Family of Products

LDM/XP is a family of production-oriented, high-speed solutions for moving host-based data to server-based systems. The LDM/XP family comprises three major products which include LD-Extraction, LD-Conversion and LD-Transport(T). LD-Extraction grabs data based on user- selected criteria from DB2, VSAM, IMS, Sequential and Adabas sources. LD-Extraction for DB2 and VSAM are available now.

Support for IMS and Adabas will be available in March 1995. LD-Conversion takes the extracted data and converts it on the MVS mainframe into a format required by the target database. Target databases currently supported include: DB2, DB2/2, DB2/6000, Oracle, Sybase, dBASE and FoxPro. LD-Transport delivers high-speed, high- volume unattended file transfer between an MVS source and all necessary workstations, servers and LAN environments.

Availability

The Xplorer 2000 Series is available worldwide directly from Amdahl. Pricing for the Xplorer 2000 Series varies depending on model and configuration. Interested customers should contact their Amdahl sales representative.

For more information specific to Legent's LDM/XP family of products, interested customers should contact their Legent sales representative or call 1-800-676-LGNT. VARs and resellers interested in the LDM/XP products should contact Legent's Partners Plus(T) channel for VARs and resellers 1-800-949-5468.

Legent Corporation (NASDAQ:LGNT), headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, is a worldwide supplier of software and services for the management of distributed computing across the enterprise. Legent's open systems strategy, XPE(T) (Cross-Platform Environment(T) ) is the company's approach for distributed enterprise computing. This approach encompasses interoperable host server, and desktop computing environments. Since 1989, Legent has provided software to maximize information technology, and today has 150 products in use at 12,000 customer sites.

Amdahl (AMEX:AMH) is a worldwide supplier of large-scale processors, enterprise and departmental servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software and a variety of educational and consulting services. The company's products are sold in more than 30 countries for use across all types of computing environments.

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Legent is a registered trademark of Legent Corporation. XPE and the LDM/XP products are trademarks of Legent Corporation. Amdahl is a registered trademark and Xplorer 2000 is a trademark of Amdahl Corporation. All other products listed herein are trademarks that are owned by the companies that market and distribute the product associated with those names.

CONTACT: Legent Corp., Herndon

             Krista L. Mohr, 703/708-3186
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             Amdahl Corp.
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