VMARK launches UniVerse Release 9; First RDBMS product to support all versions of Windows NT and UNIX.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 1996--VMARK Software, 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 :VMRK) today announced a unified Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and 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). version of UniVerse, its relational database management system relational database management system - relational database (RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database ) designed to develop and deploy high-performance business applications. With the release of UniVerse 9, VMARK is the first RDBMS vendor to provide a common product across all versions of Windows NT and UNIX, including all development interfaces, administrative tools, inter-networking products, and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. connectivity. UniVerse Release 9 is now available for immediate shipment. This release is VMARK's second-generation release of UniVerse for the Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. environment and is an industrial strength offering for the NT marketplace. It is available for all current UNIX operating systems and still supports many of the earlier versions of those operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. on platforms such as 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) , Hewlett Packard, Sun, and 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. . "This latest release of UniVerse ensures maximum portability and provides a consistent application platform across operating system environments," said Robert M. Morrill, chairman, president and 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. of VMARK. "Application developers can now design and build an application on a Windows NT server and deploy the same application with UNIX. Value added resellers (VARs) have a generic UniVerse platform scaleable from the smallest workgroup to an enterprise-wide server; and users will be able to significantly reduce their development effort and increase overall product quality," he said. "UniVerse has been a powerful, versatile, and widely- recognized product from the outset," said Jeffrey A. Spotts, VMARK's vice president of worldwide marketing. "UniVerse Release 9 is a complete database engine that observes all industry standards and offers a full suite of tools and services," Spotts continued. "It provides an ability to add development and deployment options, providing our customers with a richly-featured product which can answer the vast majority of the feature requirements being presented to us today. It also has been developed to take advantage of the Web and deploy information via the Internet; maximize the use of business intelligence tools; and create a foundation for rapidly developing data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse needs," Spotts added. Major Features and Benefits Stored Procedures UniVerse stored procedures allow complex, server-side procedures to be written with standard programming languages instead of proprietary, procedural extensions to 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. . Enterprise Integration Another feature of UniVerse 9 is an intrinsic, programmatic SQL gateway that can utilize any standard ODBC driver. This enables applications to be integrated with UniVerse no matter where the data resides - in a mainframe, server, desktop, or mobile laptop while still ensuring that the information is accessible. Easy Systems Administration A new tool can be used to administer both UNIX and Windows NT UniVerse servers. This feature significantly improves administrative ease-of-use in a networked environment by simplifying the administration of remote UniVerse servers using a Windows-based interface. Taking Advantage of the Web As part of the Release 9 version of UniVerse, VMARK has announced UV/Web, a toolkit that provides all the necessary components to build Web applications against a UniVerse RDBMS on UNIX or Windows NT. It enables users to create a new class of Internet and Intranet applications, using UniVerse's functionally rich stored procedures to create dynamic HTML (1) A general term for (HTML pages) Web pages that are customized for each user; for example, returning different values from a search. Contrast with a "static HTML" page, which is the same for all users. See dynamic Web page. documents. Bulk Data Loader New in Release 9 is a standard utility for fast and efficient importation of data from an operating system file to a user-specified format in UniVerse. The UniVerse Bulk Data Loader is highly configurable. It can combine multiple input files into a single table, and multiple columns from different files into a single column. It handles a mixture of fixed or variable length fields specified by arbitrary delimiters and performs data type conversions, plus detects and corrects dirty data (e.g., spaces to NULL). Transaction Management UniVerse Release 9 improves transaction management performance for all classes of transactions, and particularly improves performance with long-duration, complex transactions. This enhances UniVerse's industry- leading transaction management capabilities, which is unique among RDBMS's in its support for nested transactions. Testimonials Reinforce Newest Features in Release 9 Among early UniVerse Release 9 users, Louis Hyman, vice president of technology at LaPook Lear Systems, Inc., New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , said: "Moving to UniVerse has opened up a world of possibilities. A whole new customer base is available to us because we can scale our application to any number of users, move to Windows client/server, build in Internet connections, or add a data warehouse. We're very excited about the options we now have without having to rewrite all of the business logic that took us years to develop." Temenos For the municipality in Crete see Temenos, Greece. Greek Temenos (τέμενος[1], from the Greek verb τέμνω , a leading provider of international banking solutions also endorses the newest release. "Windows NT is a strategic platform for our industry-leading GLOBUS International Banking Package," said John Nugent, Business Development manager at the London, England-based firm. "And the combination of support for UNIX and Windows NT in Release 9 provides us with a unique advantage as we work toward additional alliances with major financial institutions which are moving to NT," he said. Summary "With the launch of UniVerse Release 9, we are able to offer a substantially enhanced product to our extensive customer base and worldwide network of partners who embed UniVerse in their business critical solutions. We're giving our partners new opportunities to add value to their packaged solutions, along with the widest possible range of deployment options," Spotts concluded. About VMARK Software VMARK Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:VMRK) is a leading global supplier of client/server software and services for developing, deploying, and maintaining business applications and data warehousing solutions. Founded in 1984, VMARK is today one of the top 100 software companies in the world (source: Software Magazine). It offers products and services that span the major technologies driving business in the 1990s - relational database servers, data warehouses and application development tools which are used throughout businesses and extend to Internet and World Wide Web technologies. VMARK serves over one million users in virtually every aspect of business and government through sales coverage in 40 countries and an indirect channel of more than 300 valued added resellers, systems integrators and key technology partners. CONTACT: Paula Levis Suita Arthur Dimond VMARK Software, Inc. Dimond Communications (508) 366-3888 ext. 3270 (617) 424-8373 psuita@vmark.com adimond@dcgroup.ma.ultranet.com |
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