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Attunity Liberates the Mainframe; Comprehensive Mainframe Integration Now Available with Oracle9i Application Server.


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WAKEFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2003

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: ATTU Attu, island: see Aleutian Islands. ), a leading provider of standards-based integration middleware A redundant term for "middleware." The concept of middleware is integration. See middleware.  for accessing mainframe, enterprise data sources and legacy applications, today announced a comprehensive set of mainframe integration adapters for Oracle9i Application Server.

Under an 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  licensing agreement with Attunity, Oracle offers industry-leading integration adapters to a broad range of mainframe data and transaction systems including CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem.

(2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS.
, DB2, VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data.

VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method
 and Tuxedo. With support for Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. ) standard interfaces such as 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  and 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  , these adapters provide real-time, read-write access to support the full range of capabilities of Oracle9i Application Server, including enterprise portals, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, and Web services.

"We are very pleased to expand this relationship to provide Attunity's best-of-breed mainframe adapters with the Oracle9i Application Server," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president for Oracle9i Application Server at Oracle Corporation. "Customers can now use Oracle9i Application Server and the high-performance connectivity provided by Attunity Connect to access and Web-enable their mainframe applications using Oracle9i Application Server."

"Mainframe integration requires a modern adapter architecture that can meet the demanding throughput and reliability of mission-critical processing," said Dan Potter, vice president of marketing at Attunity. "Customers such as Xchanging Ins-Sure Services, the processing bureau of Lloyds of London Lloyds of London

A marketplace in London for underwriting syndicates.
 and the International Underwriting Association, today handle 8,000,000 electronic transactions a year and 250,000 claims with a throughput of over GBP GBP

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40 billion. Through a new Web-based Claims Convergence Program based on Oracle9i Application Server and Attunity Connect, Xchanging Ins-Sure Services has achieved significant cost savings and flexibility by harnessing business transactions from multiple mainframe systems."

About Oracle9i Application Server

Oracle solves the IT challenge of integrating fragmented middleware products to run an e-business by providing one product that can replace more than 12 separate point products from other vendors. Oracle9i Application Server features full J2EE 1.3 support, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business intelligence, rapid application development, application and business integration, Web services and more, all in one package. Oracle's extensive investment in application server research and development has enabled the company to deliver a lightweight J2EE engine and extended caching capabilities that allow companies to save on infrastructure costs by scaling with software instead of hardware.

About Attunity Ltd.

Attunity(TM) is a leading provider of connectivity solutions for enterprise data 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 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 30 data sources on 20 different computing platforms. Attunity Connect engines 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's products are available through direct sales and support offices in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, France, 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. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. 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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