Control Data Announces Major New Enhancements to its Rialto Suite.

ARDEN HILLS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1998--Control Data Systems, Inc. today announced major new enhancements to its Rialto(TM) suite of web, messaging, user administration, and directory technologies.

"Global corporations and ISP's need secure, scalable technology for increasingly complex IT environments," said David Folsom, Chief Technology Officer for Control Data. "These major new enhancements ensure that Control Data will remain at the forefront of web, messaging, user administration and directory technology."

IntraStore 2000 is an Internet server that hosts large enterprise messaging and web environments, and includes enhancements aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISP's) and large global customers. It delivers a wide range of Internet standard network services to dial-in home users, businesses and other communities of interest. It also enables ISP's and large global customers to provide customized, branded service offerings that will attract and retain customers, and build market presence.

Global Directory 2000 (GD2000) is a higher-performing, more scalable version of the company's foundation X.500 enterprise directory products. Like its predecessors, GD2000 is fully compliant with the latest X.500 technology standards, and provides a unifying conduit through which a wide range of users, applications and systems can access a shared catalog of information under superior access control security. But GD2000 also includes a new, embedded LDAP server with the latest LDAP V3 technology, and can secure data flow and protect pathways inside large, globally distributed companies. SSL protection has been added not only to provide secure access to the new LDAP server but also to secure access to metaconnector pipelines linking other metadirectories and reference data repositories.

Global User Administration 2000 (GUA2000) is a high-quality, real-time solution that allows organizations to centralize and manage system access for hundreds of thousands of users from a single web interface. The directory-enabled GUA2000 allows new users or users changing roles to become productive more quickly, and it enables organizations to quickly remove access to the network in the event that an employee leaves or changes responsibilities.

GUA2000 is an extremely cost-effective solution, since it centralizes routine administrative processes of multiple system types without requiring expensive changes to the rest of the infrastructure.

"Instead of spending millions of dollars on a systems management investment that may or may not succeed, GUA200 allows organizations to achieve substantial ROI at a fraction of the cost," Folsom said.

Control Data Systems, Inc. delivers E-Commerce solutions that help organizations transform the way they do business through web, messaging, directory and security technologies. With its Rialto(TM) brand of directory-enabled software tools and services, the company is focused on the architecture, implementation and lifetime support of digital commerce and enterprise-wide client-server solutions for business and government. To read separate press releases for each new product, visit our company news stand at www.cdc.com. For more information, call 1-888-742-5864 in the U.S. (1-651-415-2999 internationally).