Data Connection announces Version 2 of DC Directory.

EMA PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1997--Data Connection Limited (DCL), the leading independent vendor of standards-based messaging and directory products, today announced a new version of its DC Directory product, which adds further capabilities to the existing Internet/X.500 meta-directory product.

DC Directory is a cross-platform directory product, offering rich protocol and access connectivity, high-end scalability and integration with existing groupware/email directories for corporates building Enterprise Directories, including support for Internet clients, applications and WWW servers to access directory information across the Internet.

Version 2 of the product introduces a powerful Administration UI, improved database scalability and performance, and additional features for legacy directory system integration including single point of enrolment.

"This is a significant step forward for our product set" said John Cooper, a Directory of DCL's Messaging and Directory business unit. "Corporate take-up of distributed directory systems has been limited to date by the complexities involved in deploying and administering truly large-scale, distributed systems. The new administration features of DC Directory, including the automatic management of directory links and references, and the ability to scale to many millions of entries while still providing excellent performance, allows our customers to tackle these issues head-on."

DC Directory is a vendor-independent, cross-platform directory server available natively on Windows NT, UNIX and OS/2, with which corporates can build large-scale Enterprise Directories, for both Intranet and Internet access. It includes a CCITT 1993 X.500 compliant Directory System Agent (DSA), and supports Directory Access Protocol (DAP), Directory System Protocol (DSP), Directory Information Shadowing Protocol (DISP), and the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

It can be accessed from WWW Browsers via HTTP and LDAP, Windows applications, X.500 Directory User Agents (DUAs) and even touch-tone phones. It has extensive back-end integration support for existing groupware/email directories (such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Novell GroupWise) and line-of-business information databases (such as customer records, human resources and EDI) to allow corporate directory administrators to build a single Enterprise Directory on top of, and alongside, existing directories and databases.

Data Connection Limited (DCL) is the leading independent developer and supplier of Messaging, Directory, SNA and ATM portable software technology products with customers including Hewlett- Packard, IBM Corp, Lotus, Microsoft, and large end-users (such as banks, government and airlines). Further offerings include data-conferencing and retail software. Data Connection is headquartered in London, UK, with US offices in Virginia. It was founded in 1981 and is privately held.

During each of the past 15 years Data Connection's profits have exceeded 20% of revenue. Last year, the company's sales were approximately $21M, of which over 90% were overseas, mostly in the US.

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