PeerDirect Replication Engine Ships With Corel's Paradox 9 Developer's Edition.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1999--

PeerDirect Replication Engine gives users fast, reliable access

to database information at any time, anywhere.

PeerDirect Inc. announced today that PeerDirect Replication Engine (PDRE) is shipping with Corel's Paradox(R) 9 Developer's Edition. By choosing PeerDirect Replication

Engine as their replication solution, Corel is giving its users the most feature-rich and easiest-to-use replication software available, allowing seamless replication of Paradox databases, both homogeneously and with today's most popular enterprise and workstation databases.

"This deal is a tremendous validation of our peer-to-peer architecture and our current technological lead. As the only product that has been licensed by database vendors, PeerDirect Replication Engine is poised to become an industry-standard data replication solution," said PeerDirect Inc. President and CEO, Larry Palmer.

According to Dr. Michael Cowpland, President and CEO of Corel Corporation, "PeerDirect is a great tool for Paradox 9 Developer's Edition because it will eliminate the time people spend trying to connect to their databases from remote locations. With this tool, our users can go on the road with the databases already on their systems, and won't have to spend time replicating those databases when they get back."

Unlike other products that target enterprise data replication, PDRE operates as a drop-in replication "black box," and it does not require any additional software to be installed on existing servers. As easily as they develop a single database solution, Paradox users can now develop entire distributed database solutions that can be administered from any site. "Users won't even know we're there, but they will know the power of our presence as the Replication Engine works away in the background, transparently and efficiently replicating and synchronizing data," said Herb Sutter, PeerDirect's Chief Technology Officer.

PDRE is invisible to end users and therefore requires no retraining and/or reliance on the user to perform replication. Employees can continue to use their Paradox or other database applications without retraining. Users just use the applications, whether they are at head office or using a laptop in an airplane; the application "is just always there," and whenever the user's computer is connected to a network data changes are synchronized automatically.

PeerDirect Replication Engine supports databases running on Corel's Paradox, Oracle(R), Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, Pervasive.SQL, InterBase, and Microsoft Access, with all platforms bidirectionally interoperable as true peers in any combination.