Hewlett-Packard And Visigenic Software Announce Licensing Agreement; HP To Integrate Visigenic ODBC Driver Technology In Future HP Software Products.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 1995-- Hewlett-Packard Company and Visigenic Software, Inc. today announced that the two companies have entered into a technology licensing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will integrate Visigenic's ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. Driver technology into future releases of select products from HP's Software Business Unit. HP has also licensed the Visigenic Software Development Kit (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ) which will allow developers to build database independent applications. With Visigenic's ODBC Driver technology embedded into certain HP software products, developers will, for the first time, be provided with seamless connectivity to CA-Ingres, Informix, Oracle and Sybase databases. Together, HP and Visigenic will provide a development environment that incorporates the industry standard technology for data access across multiple platforms including all HP-supported environments. "Our customers need the flexibility to select their preferred relational database for the HP software products they use," said Tilman Schad, general manager of HP's Software Business Unit. "We look forward to including Visigenic's state-of-the-art database independence technology in upcoming HP software products." "Our agreement with HP is another major endorsement of ODBC as the industry standard technology for enterprise wide data access in any environment," said Mark Hanson, president of Visigenic Software. "Developers using HP's software products will now have reliable, high-performance access to the leading relational databases. We are delighted to have partnered with HP to make this a reality." Visigenic ODBC DriverSet and SDK The Visigenic ODBC DriverSet provides high performance data access to multiple SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. databases without the complexity of native database APIs. The ODBC DriverSet supports the most comprehensive set of client/server platforms - including HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Windows, Windows NT, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , Solaris, Sun OS, OS/2, Macintosh, and Power Macintosh - making it the only cross-platform ODBC solution. The Visigenic ODBC DriverSet is composed of drivers including CA-Ingres, Informix, Oracle, Sybase 10, Sybase DBLib, Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) DB2. Visigenic's ODBC SDK allow users to write and deploy database independent C and C++ applications across any platform. The Visigenic ODBC SDKs are 100 percent compatible with Microsoft's ODBC SDK for Windows. Based on an agreement with Microsoft, Visigenic has the exclusive rights to license and port ODBC to all non-Windows platforms. The ODBC SDKs support the most comprehensive set of client/server platforms, including HP-UX, AIX, SCO, Solaris, Sun OS, OS/2, Macintosh and Power Macintosh. Additional platforms will be available on an on-going basis. About Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,600 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. Hewlett-Packard's Software Business Unit (SBU SBU St. Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, New York) SBU Stony Brook University (State University of New York) SBU Southwest Baptist University (Bolivar, MO) ) provides open enterprise software foundations (platforms) and solutions to help customers re-engineer their business processes for improved competitiveness. The SBU is comprised of four businesses that focus on: HP SoftBench, a complete family of products for open, distributed application development; HP OpenView, a complete family of products for the management of distributed networks, systems, applications and databases; HP WorkManager, enterprise product data management solutions; and HP Precision Engineering, HP's new product generation and design solutions (2D and 3D mechanical design). About Visigenic Software, Inc. Visigenic Software, Inc. is focused on, and is an industry expert in cross-platform database connectivity. The company's unique combination of products, tools and services makes Visigenic the only complete ODBC solution provider. Its products include the Visigenic ODBC DriverSet, Visigenic ODBC Software Development Kits, and Visigenic ODBC Test Suites for Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Macintosh and OS/2. Founded by Roger Sippl in 1993, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . -0- Note to Editors: Visigenic is a registered trademark of Visigenic Software, Inc. ODBC is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation used under license by Visigenic. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Visigenic Software, Inc. Terry Langlais, 415/286-1900 terry@visigenic.com or The Horn Group Shannon Hall, 415/579-6400 shannon@horngroup.com or Hewlett-Packard Jim DeNike, 408/447-6169 |
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