Oracle acquires Digital's database integrator products
Date: 1996/05/05
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SUBJECT: ORACLE ACQUIRES DIGITAL'S DATABASE INTEGRATOR PRODUCTS -- AGREEMENT FOLLOWS RDB ACQUISITION FROM DIGITAL IN DECEMBER 1994 SOURCE: PR Newswire via First! by Individual, Inc. DATE: April 4, 1996
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REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., April 4 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced the acquisition of Digital's DB Integrator (DBI) product family from Digital Equipment Corp. (NYSE: DEC). The product family includes Digital's DB Integrator, Digital's Data Distributor, and Digital's DB Integrator Gateways. The cash transaction for an undisclosed amount will include the transfer of the products, and associated engineering and support resources to Oracle's New England Development Center in Nashua, N.H., established in December 1994 when Oracle purchased the Rdb product business from Digital.
Engineering, Support and Products Become Part of Oracle
The DBI Products are a software family that provides distributed database, database replication, and query parallelism to applications on Digital platforms using the Rdb SQL language and the Rdb ODBC interface. They also include transparent access to dozens of database management systems directly and in cooperation with third-party middleware products.
Replication, Query Parallelism, Distributed Database and Shared Data with Oracle7
"While there are companies using DBI independently of Rdb, Oracle Rdb
customers are the primary users of these products," notes Jim Steiner,
senior director of marketing for Oracle's New England Development Center.
"The addition of replication, parallel query and distributed database
capabilities to Rdb will be a major benefit to our customers who can now
meet the growing demands facing heterogeneous enterprise environments.
These products support database customers who want the high-availability,
enterprise features in our new Rdb7 release."
The gateway technology in DBI allows Rdb applications to share data with Oracle7 databases. It allows applications that support Rdb, both serverand client/server-based, to run against both Rdb and Oracle7.
Acquisition Complements Oracle's Rdb7 Strategy
"As we continue to enhance Rdb, we are adding many new features with the
enterprise market in mind. We are also enhancing Rdb and bringing greater
value to customers by making the information management technologies Oracle
offers available to the Rdb user," said Charles Rozwat, vice president of
development for Oracle's New England Development Center. "The addition of
the DBI products strengthens our ability to bring the same client/server
development, management, data access, and application enabling technologies
available on both Rdb and Oracle servers wherever possible."
Availability
The DBI products will continue to be available from Digital Equipment for a limited time and are planned for availability directly from Oracle by the end of April 1996.
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y making the information management technologies Oracle offers available to the Rdb user," said Charles Rozwat, vice president of development for Oracle's New England Development Center. "The addition of the DBI products strengthens our ability to bring the same client/server development, management, data access, and applicatio
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