UNFY NEWS ON 10-14-97
Company Press Release
Unify's VISION/TP Selected by Japanese Giant Oki Electric for the Development of Online Transaction Processing Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1997--
Oki Electric Industry signs distribution agreement to sell, market and support Unify's VISION and VISION/TP products in Japan
Unify Corporation (NASDAQ:UNFY), a leading provider of client/server software solutions for the development, deployment and management of core business applications for client/server networks and the Internet, announced today that Unify and Japanese industrial giant Oki Electric Industry have jointly completed the development of VISION/TP, an integration of Unify VISION and VISION/Web products with BEA Systems Tuxedo middleware.
In a press release by OKI Electric Industry, President Shiko Sawamura stated that VISION/TP will allow Oki to provide functionality that is essential to the development of mission-critical systems. VISION/TP effectively enables corporations to develop highly scaleable OLTP applications and run these applications on both enterprise networks and the Internet.
Unify VISION was selected over other leading development tools because of its superior client/server and Internet application development functionality. VISION/TP enables Oki to quickly and easily deliver high-volume, distributed, transaction processing applications such as electronic commerce and customer care to their large customer base of financial, telecommunications and manufacturing organizations. Using VISION/TP will give Oki's customer base the powerful monitoring and application management capabilities to push their business-critical applications forward.
Under the terms of this agreement Oki will sell, market and support Unify's VISION and VISION/TP products to the Japanese marketplace.
''We are excited about our close partnership with Oki Electric Industries and pleased that Oki has chosen VISION/TP as its premier application development solution,'' said Reza Mikailli, CEO of Unify Corporation. ''Integration of Unify's VISION and VISION/Web products with the Tuxedo middleware provides a powerful development platform for building robust OLTP client/server and Internet applications.''
About Oki
Founded in 1881 as Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is a leader in the global marketplace. With more than 21,000 employees worldwide and net sales of $7bn, Oki Electric manufacturers and markets telecommunications systems, information's systems, and electronic devices.
About VISION and VISION/Web
VISION with VISION/Web is the first advanced client/server development environment to generate Java code, without the need for Java programming and enable developers to build high-end transactional applications that run both on Web and traditional client/server networks.
VISION and VISION/Web provide a fully object-oriented development environment with built-in CORBA-based middleware that supports an extensive set of high-end functionality such as multi-tier, dynamic application partitioning and high volume transaction processing for fast and effective deployment of business-critical applications.
VISION and VISION/Web include the industry's leading application management capabilities, allowing administrators to centrally manage and control the performance of their distributed applications without any effort on the part of developers.
Unify VISION and VISION/Web currently supports AIX, Sun Solaris, DEC-Alpha, HP-UX, OS/2, Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1 (for deployment only) and Macintosh (for deployment only). VISION also supports native database connectivity to ORACLE, Informix, Sybase, DB2, Unify and Microsoft SQL Server with ODBC connectivity to Microsoft Access, dBASE, and Sybase SQL Anywhere.
About Unify Corporation
Unify Corporation develops, markets and supports advanced application development environments for the development, deployment and management of high-end, business-critical client/server applications for the Internet.
Unify's professional services organization provides a full range of services to help customers successfully implement their application initiatives. Unify's product line includes VISION, VISION/Web, VISION/AppMan, ACCELL/SQL, and the DataServer product family.
Headquartered in San Jose, Unify has direct sales offices throughout North America, Europe and Japan, with a network of distributors, VARs, OEMs and systems integrators worldwide. Unify has more than 375,000 users worldwide, including leaders in telecommunications, financial services, commercial industries and government. Unify product and service information is located on the World Wide Web at unify.com .
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Contact:
Unify Corporation
Kim Braun, 408/467-4527
kbraun@unify.com
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