MAINFRAME AND LEGACY DATABASES CONNECT TO JAVA APPLICATIION.WebGain, Inc., Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , a leading provider of e-business development environments, has signed an agreement with Attunity, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ATTU Attu, island: see Aleutian Islands. ), which authorizes WebGain to sell Attunity's line of products in conjunction with WebGain's data integration platform called TopLink(TM), on a worldwide basis. WebGain TopLink(TM) connects and persists Java Objects to relational databases relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . Attunity's products enable WebGain to expand its reach to mainframe, legacy and non-relational databases in addition to mapping and persisting connections between Java and relational databases. "Enterprise customers are connecting their mainframes and legacy databases to their Java J2EE applications," said Dennis Leung, WebGain's VP of Engineering. "WebGain TopLink has been widely adopted by many Enterprise customers who have a need for mapping and persisting connections between Java and relational databases. Now with our new relationship with Attunity, WebGain can offer an enterprise solution for non-relational databases from the PC to the mainframe. Our goal continues to be the supplier which provides a complete solution to Enterprise customers." "WebGain's revenue from TopLink's sales grew more than 200% over the past year," stated Joe Menard, WebGain's Chairman & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Many of our TopLink customers want to exploit the power of TopLink with legacy data. Connecting Enterprise Java Applications to databases is a nightmare," continued Joe Menard, "TopLink makes it simple, maintains the mapping, and allows the worlds of Java and databases to synchronize See synchronization. with each other." WebGain's choice to offer Attunity's products with TopLink was made after evaluating a number of possible solutions. With superior performance and native support for virtually any data source and platform, WebGain believes that Attunity has the best solution for Enterprise customers "WebGain is a respected leader in Java and database integration, and we are honored to have them reselling our products," said Paul MacKay, chief executive officer of Attunity. "Now Java developers needing to integrate with legacy and non relational data sources have a highly productive alternative to writing custom interfaces to existing systems." About WebGain, Inc. WebGain, Inc. accelerates the definition, design, construction, deployment and evolution of enterprise-class e-business applications for leading application server technologies. WebGain Studio A suite of tools from the former WebGain division of Symantec for end-to-end e-commerce development. It included the Visual Cafe Java development environment, Macromedia's Dreamweaver, UML modeling and EJB code generation and a tool to map objects into relational databases. , the company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , reduces time to market for e-business applications through providing integrated development solutions across the application development lifecycle. Privately held, WebGain, Inc., is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and is on the Web at http://www.webgain.com/. For more information, call 408-517-5831, or visit http://www.webgain.com. |
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