Oracle Corporation ships Oracle Glue for Windows
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. — April 27, 1993 — Oracle Corporation today announced the immediate availability of Oracle Glue(TM) for Windows, the latest component of the Oracle Cooperative Development Environment (CDE).
Oracle Glue is the adaptable, portable, integrated application programming interface (API) that will help developers create the next generation of client/server applications. Oracle Glue for Windows Version 1.0 provides a consistent, high level programming interface between applications on Windows PCs and a mix of data sources including the ORACLE RDBMS and IBM DB2, Oracle*Mail and the Sharp Wizard palmtop organizer.
A High Level API for Today's High Level Scripting Languages
''Client/Server computing has stalled in many organizations due to the lack of available tools,'' said Marc R. Benioff, corporate vice president of Oracle's New Technology Division. ''Now, with Oracle Glue, almost any application can become a client to a database, a mail system, or even a palmtop computer.''
The Adaptable, Portable, Integrated API
Among middleware solutions emerging today, Oracle Glue is uniquely adaptable, portable, and integrated. Oracle Glue is adaptable because it will access data from a full range of databases, mail systems, file systems and even palmtop computers. It is portable because it will run on a variety of graphical user interfaces including Windows and Macintosh on the desktop, Motif on Unix, and even Pen Windows and PenPoint on mobile computers. It is integrated because it will work in a consistent, high level way within the scripting languages of corporate standard tools that users demand. Oracle Glue Version 1.0 for Windows will work within the Excel macro language and Visual Basic and it will also work within products like Lotus 123 or Ami Pro that can utilize DDE, dynamic data exchange, or call a DLL, a dynamic link library.
Oracle Glue delivers on the Oracle Cooperative Development Environment's promise of openness by allowing developers to use a variety of off-the-shelf Windows applications to connect to their data.
The Oracle Glue for Windows software development kit is available immediately. It will also be made available as part of the CDE product bundle which is scheduled to ship in June 1993.
About Oracle
Oracle Corp., headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, is the world's largest supplier of database software.
Oracle develops and markets an integrated family of software products for database management; tools for CASE, application development and office automation; and application packages for accounting and manufacturing. Oracle software runs on PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers.
The company offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services, in 92 countries around the world. Oracle is a publicly-held corporation whose shares are traded on NASDAQ/NMS with the ticker symbol ORCL.
For further information about Oracle, call Oracle corporate headquarters at (415) 506-7000 or write to Oracle Corp., 500 Oracle Parkway, Box 659509, Redwood Shores, CA 94065.
Note To Editors: ORACLE, Oracle Glue, and Cooperative Development Environment (CDE) are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Lotus, 123 and Ami Pro are trademarks of Lotus Development Corp. All other vendors named own their own respective trademarks.
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