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Centura Software Announces Micro-Server Product Direction
REDWOOD SHORES, CA. April 7 1998. Centura Software (NASDAQ:CNTR),
formerly Gupta, announced extensions to its SQLBaseG embedded database
product strategy, SQLBase Micro-Servers. The Micro-Server product
family is designed to take advantage of the opportunity for a small
footprint, robust database embedded in new devices that continue to
get smaller and smarter, requiring embedded databases in new form
factors. These form factors include hand held computers running
applications like sales automation on Windows CE, information
appliances like XEROXTM copiers storing user behavior, and Smart Cards
for the health care, transportation, securities and other industries.
The SQLBase Micro-Server product line includes SQLBase Pocket for hand
held computers, SQLBase RISC for embedded microprocessors in
information appliances, and SQLBase Smart Card. Centura is also
announcing the return of Kwang-Chi Liang, one of the original
architects of SQLBase, as the senior architect for the Micro-Server
products.
"Prototypes of selected Micro-Server products are currently
operational in pilot sites, and should be available for release in the
fall of 1998," said Scott Broomfield, Centura's CEO.
"SQLBase has been the product of choice for many corporations and
software vendors over the years to connect and synchronize
occasionally connected databases," said Kathleen Lane, Centura's Sr.
Vice President Worldwide Marketing. "Today, SQLBase has the smallest
footprint of any Windows-based SQL database, a single set of code
scalable from a single desktop to the web, and access to APIs allowing
developer control of server processes. As data continues to move to
smaller footprints and new server-centric form factors, it is a
natural, logical extension of our technology and expertise to make
SQLBase capability available for the new small, smart platforms
requiring an embedded database.
Centura was the first company to enter the client/server market with a
small footprint, robust database, and has been a leader in this space.
Today, millions of end user connect and synchronize SQLBase data
stored in laptops and other mobile computers to LAN and Web networks
running SQLBase and other databases.
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