Attunity Announces Support for BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1; BEA and Attunity Provide Faster Time to Value for Legacy Integration.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003 Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ATTU Attu, island: see Aleutian Islands. ), a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications, today announced support for BEA WebLogic Enterprise The previous name for BEA's CORBA ORB, which later became part of the BEA Tuxedo platform. For a while, WebLogic Enterprise was the name of the entire product suite, but Enterprise was later dropped. See BEA Tuxedo. Platform(TM). Today's announcement supports the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, an integrated platform that provides superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration, from BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company. Attunity provides BEA-certified, and J2EE-standards based connectivity to enable the full utilization of existing mainframe and legacy information. Together, Attunity and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. can provide faster time to value for developing, integrating and extending legacy applications. "BEA is pleased to have the support of Attunity," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager of global software partners, BEA Systems, Inc. "A large percentage of corporate data continues to reside in complex legacy formats and platforms. Attunity Connect adapters are designed to provide out-of-the box connectivity and utilize standard interfaces to shield users from the complexity of legacy back end systems." "Attunity provides a modern, service-oriented approach to legacy integration which can enable a single adapter to serve many diverse uses including Web enablement, portals, Web services, reporting, and enterprise integration. Attunity continues its support for the BEA community and now offers the perfect complement to harness the full capabilities available with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1," said Dan Potter, vice president of marketing at Attunity. Attunity Connect for WebLogic provides standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications. Attunity's prebuilt pre·built adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a structure or a portion of a structure that is constructed or assembled before being transported to its site of installation; prefabricated: a prebuilt home. adapter library includes adapters to all the common enterprise data sources, transaction systems and 3GL based legacy applications. Attunity Connect offers a real-time, direct integration solution, providing SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. and XML-based access through WebLogic supported standard interfaces. With a modern, distributed architecture, Attunity Connect runs natively on all major platforms including 0S/390, 0S/400, NonStop, OpenVMS, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and Windows. Additional information on Attunity Connect for WebLogic can be accessed at: http://www.attunity.com/products/Connectweblogic.asp. About Attunity Ltd. Attunity(TM) is a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications. Founded in 1987 and traded on the NASDAQ exchange, Attunity's worldwide operations support over 1,000 direct end-users including many of the Fortune 1000. Through distribution and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreements with global-class partners such as Oracle and HP, Attunity-based solutions are deployed on tens of thousands of systems worldwide. The Attunity Connect product family provides standards-based access to over 35 data sources on 20 different computing platforms. Attunity Connect adapters reside natively on each target platform and provide enterprise-class integration capabilities such as real-time read/write access, distributed transaction management, heterogeneous joins between relational and non-relational data sources, and optimized query execution. Attunity Connect makes legacy systems accessible through SQL and XML based interfaces including JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database , ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. , JCA (1) (Java Cryptography Architecture) An umbrella term from Sun for implementing security functions for the Java platform. It includes Sun's Java Security API as well as the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), which adds more programming interfaces for encryption , COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. and SOAP. Attunity's products are available through direct sales and support offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Israel, the People's Republic of China, and Australia, as well as distributors in Japan, S.E. Asia, Europe and Latin America. For more information, visit www.attunity.com or email info@attunity.com. Copyright (C) 2003 Attunity Ltd. All rights reserved. Attunity, the Attunity logo, Application Adapter Framework, Attunity AAF AAF abbr. Army Air Forces , Attunity Connect and Web Services Process Integration are trademarks of Attunity Ltd. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. (Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may vary significantly based upon a number of factors, including but not limited to risks and product technology development, market acceptance of the products and continuing product demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, changing economic conditions, both here and abroad, release and sales of new products by strategic resellers and customers, and other risk factors detailed in the company's most recent annual report and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.) |
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