Data General supports Oracle8, The Database for Network Computing.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1997--

Improved Functionality, Performance and Availability through use

of Oracle8 to Deliver New Value to Customers

Data General today announced support of Oracle8, Oracle's next- generation database for network computing. Data General's family of AViiON servers, including the recently announced AV 20000 NUMA-based system, provide a highly scalable, highly available, and cost-effective platform for the latest version of Oracle's flagship product. With Oracle8, Data General will be better able to meet the online transaction processing and data warehousing application needs of its customers, with support for larger databases, more users, and faster response times at a lower cost of ownership.

Oracle8, the Database for Network Computing, manages large amounts of information securely, reliably and economically over computer networks. Oracle8 is a versatile information platform that enables high-speed transactions, better business decisions, and sophisticated object-relational applications. Built on a foundation of proven technology, Oracle8 is designed to lower an organization's computing costs, manage all types of data, and deliver faster information access to all kinds of users.

Data General resells and supports the full suite of Oracle products on AViiON servers running either Microsoft Windows NT Server or DG/UX operating systems. Oracle8 will enable Data General to not only meet the growing database needs of existing customers, but also pursue highly scalable data warehousing applications in targeted industries such as retail, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, and financial services.

"Data General has been working with Oracle8 for some time, tuning performance on the new AV 20000 system," said Sue Sweeney, vice president, Strategic Alliances at Data General. "This experience should mean highly scalable performance in production environments for the large percentage of our customers who use Oracle."

In addition to performance enhancements, such as partitioning and increased parallelism, customers will benefit from the mainframe-caliber OLTP of Oracle8, including advanced queuing, Oracle Parallel Server improvements, transparent application fail over, and the back-up/recovery subsystem. These new features, combined with the high reliability levels of AViiON servers and CLARiiON fault-tolerant disk arrays, should translate into a streamlined migration process and ease concerns of any customers operating mission-critical 7x24 production environments.

"Today's mission-critical data warehousing applications require a database that can support tens of thousands of concurrent users and tens of terabytes of data," said Gary Bloom, senior vice president of Worldwide Alliances and Technology at Oracle. "Oracle8 along with Data General systems will provide our customers with unparalleled power and performance for increasingly demanding data warehousing and online transaction processing applications."

About Data General

Data General (NYSE:DGN), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems, and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.3 billion during fiscal 1996. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com

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AViiON, CLARiiON, and DG/UX are registered trademarks of Data General Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark, and Oracle8 and The Database for Network Computing are trademarks of Oracle Corporation.

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