Centura Software Corporation Announces Support for Netscape One Platform.

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1997--Centura Software Corporation, (NASDAQ:CNTR), today announced its support for Netscape ONE, the open network environment, a standards-based platform that enables developers to create a new generation of distributed Web applications for Intranets and the Internet.

Netscape ONE unifies into a single platform current Internet standards such as HTTP, HTML, Java, JAVASCRIPT and a bevy of open, cross-platform technologies for creating rich, distributed Web-based applications.

"Compliance with the Web application development and deployment standards set forth by Netscape ONE provides a robust infrastructure for corporate systems on the Web," said Michael Keddington, Centura's vice president of marketing and North American Sales. "The openness and cross-functionality of the Netscape ONE platform integrate nicely with Centura's Web application development and deployment products, especially the standards-based nature of Centura's ForeSite Integration Server."

"Centura's deployment environment in concert with the technologies of the Netscape ONE platform provides innovative and powerful tools to help enterprise developers using the Web," said Danny Shader, vice president of industry and developer relations at Netscape Communications Corporation. "Centura's ForeSite Integration Server is an important framework for developers to move quickly and optimize solutions for the Internet and Intranet environments."

Other Centura products supporting Netscape ONE include Centura Web Developer, the first complete application development tool for the Web, and a database query engine for the Web code-named "Mambo" that is due from Centura later this year. Other initiatives on which the two companies are collaborating include Netscape's online tools guide called "Tools for Netscape ONE", Netscape App Foundry and Centura's ISV Partner Program.

"Tools for Netscape One" is an online guide that provide a single centralized source to help Netscape customers and corporate developers find information on Internet tools and vendors. Netscape AppFoundry is a collection of reusable business applications and powerful new enterprise development tools designed to make it easy for enterprise developers to use Java, JavaScript and other technologies in Netscape ONE, to create and rapidly deploy cross- platform business applications on their Intranets.

Centura's Web application development and deployment products integrate the following Netscape ONE technologies: -0-

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) -- HTML generated from almost any authoring tool is manifest in ForeSite's Integrator component with a simple drag-and-drop of .htm files. The ForeSite Integrator then allows application logic components to be embedded in the page as the developer sees fit. The resulting pages are then served up by the ForeSite PageServer, a multi-threaded, scalable application server.

Java and JavaScript -- Client-side presentation and logic written in either of these languages can be integrated into an application served by ForeSite's PageServer. Server-side components written in Java are placed into a ForeSite Integrator page via a System Ingration Module (SIM). Mambo is the first Web data publisher written entirely in JavaScript.

Internet Foundation Classes (IFCs) -- Because the IFC is a set of Java classes, components and APIs, these can be integrated by eval. Centura will also support NNTP for discusa) has enjoyed a rich history of innovation and bringing award-winning client/server products to the marketplace, including SQL Windows and SQLBase. Based on this success, it has grown into a global enterprise with 26 offices, 120,000 developers and 1.5 million end users around the world. Today, Centura is pioneering robust technologies oriented toward the new world of the Intranet and Internet with products such as ForeSite Integration Server and Centura Web Developer. The company's customers include Automatic Data Processing (ADP), United Parcel Service, United Airlines, Citibank, Singapore Airlines, Siemens-Nixdorf, Daimler-Benz, and Ford Motor Company. For more information about Centura visit www.centurasoft.com .

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