CA and Apple to Integrate Next Generation Object-Oriented Multimedia Solutions.

CA-WORLD '97, NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1997--

-- CA's Jasmine And Apple's "Yellow Box" Development

Environment To Work Together --

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that they are integrating CA's Jasmine object-oriented database and multimedia authoring environment with Apple's object-oriented "Yellow Box" application development environment, a key component of Apple's next generation OS, code-named Rhapsody.

Jasmine combines a pure object-oriented database with a powerful multimedia development system. It supports all the features that give object-oriented databases their power, such as inheritance, instance-level and class-level properties, instance methods and class methods. Jasmine class libraries fully manage multimedia data, including graphics, animation, audio, and full-motion video. An SQL class library permits Jasmine to access and update legacy data.

Apple's advanced application development and runtime environment, code-named Yellow Box, is designed to give Rhapsody developers easy access to state-of-the-art object-oriented technologies. CA and Apple plan to work together to make Yellow Box interact with the Jasmine environment, simplifying the process of building cross-platform, object-oriented systems. Corporate developers could then use Rhapsody to construct Jasmine applications that could be deployed on a variety of computing platforms, including MacOS, Windows 95, Windows NT and UNIX, as well as Rhapsody.

Both Jasmine and Yellow Box support 100 percent pure Java applications using the standard libraries that run on any Java Virtual Machine. Together, the two products will provide organizations with a rich and even more comprehensive solution for constructing the next generation of object-based, multimedia applications.

"While CA offers pure object solutions and a full spectrum of mission-critical infrastructure software, Apple brings leadership in object technologies, personal computing, and next-generation operating systems," said CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang. "Corporate developers depend on a variety of products, particularly in this new era of Internet application development. Yellow Box offers these developers additional choices and unique technologies such as QuickTime and WebObjects for sophisticated multimedia and Internet application development."

"A Jasmine-Yellow Box integration will broaden the range of platforms over which advanced multimedia applications can be developed and deployed," said Apple Executive Vice President of Marketing Guerrino De Luca. "Jasmine offers a robust, mission-critical object database for enterprise deployment of Yellow Box applications."

Yellow Box developers will benefit from the comprehensive object-oriented environment and database capabilities of Jasmine, along with its scalable, mission-critical deployment characteristics. The native support for multimedia objects for Jasmine, such as video, audio, pictures and text, make it the ideal platform for tomorrow's applications.

Jasmine developers will benefit from many of the technologies that continue to give Apple an edge in the computer industry, such as QuickTime, the industry-standard architecture for creating, manipulating, playing and storing multimedia files. Developers could also leverage the tremendous depth of experience and industry leadership Apple exhibits in the areas of graphics development, PostScript imaging, virtual reality, and color-matching technology.

"The Macintosh has long been recognized as a premiere multimedia authoring environment," Wang said. "With its recent acquisition of NeXT Software, Apple is poised to take a leadership role in the next generation of object-oriented computing. The Jasmine-Yellow Box integration will allow Macintosh developers to use Apple's advanced Rhapsody computing platform to construct Jasmine applications for a variety of computers, operating systems, and problem domains."

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has nearly 10,000 people in 160 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $4 billion in fiscal year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing [e-mail] or calling 1-516-342-5224.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized innovator in the information industry and leader in multimedia technologies, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to-use personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, handheld computers and Internet content. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple develops, manufactures, licenses and markets solutions, products, technologies and services for business, education, consumer, entertainment, scientific and engineering and government customers in more than 140 countries. -0-

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