Munich, Dezember 9th, 1998 – NetManage and Centura Software have announced a strategic partnership to provide enterprise customers with AS/400 connectivity solutions. The relationship enables NetManage to provide enterprise customers with access to large systems as part of its core offering.

NetManage has traditionally specialised in Windows to host emulation connectivity and ODBC support solutions. The company recognises that some enterprise customers are increasingly looking to a solution that is able to provide additional connectivity in order to support applications such as database access across midrange platforms.

Centura offers a powerful and leading product in this arena in the form of the Centura Team Developer (CTD), which when combined with NetManage’s Chameleon and NS/Portfolio products deliver a power business solution to the UK market. By working closely together, the two companies’ product advances will be able to guarantee users full compatibility and maximum performance from the desktop.

- "NetManage is pleased to be working together with Centura to deliver a full solution to our customers. NetManage places a high importance on forging links with solution providers in the market like Centura," says Gordon Ash, Vice President, Netmanage.

- "The alliance between Centura and NetManage further strengthens the commitment made by Centura to provide an open and flexible environment for its developers. With NetManage's advanced connectivity, AS/400 users can now enjoy an open, productive, component based development environment," says Simon Addis, Product Marketing Manager, Centura.

Centura's Team Developer product (CTD) is the 32-bit version of SQLWindows, Centura's award-winning object oriented 4GL tool used by thousands of programmers to develop large-scale development projects on time and on budget. CTD provides native database connectivity to Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, SQLBase, DBZ, CA-OpenIngres and ODBC.

CTD offers an exceptional combination of productivity, connectivity and openness. It gives development teams the tools they need to deliver scaleable and robust business applications for both Web and Windows Client/Server applications. CTD contains a rich fourth generation language (SAL), a full-featured source code and component management system (Team Object Manager), the newly integrated Component Developer's Kit (CDK) and a variety of other valuable tools.

About NetManage

Founded in 1990, NetManage, Inc. provides complete PC Connectivity solutions, offering world-class Windows applications for connecting UNIX®, AS/400 midrange and IBM mainframe host systems. The company also provides remote access, application sharing and help desk technology. NetManage helped drive the emergence of open networks through its TCP/IP applications and its significant contributions to important industry standards including both Winsock and NS/Router. NetManage employs more than 450 people worldwide, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California. The company’s products are sold and serviced worldwide by NetManage’s direct sales force, international subsidiaries and authorised channel partners.

About Centura Software

Centura Software, founded as Gupta in 1984, was the first company to create fully relational client/server embedded RDBMS for the personal computer. Today Centura’s products help developers build and deploy component based business applications requiring embedded databases. Centura's D3 Framework (Develop, Deploy and Distribute) consists of world-class products including SQLBase, Centura Team Developer and Centura net.db, all of which can scale from the Web down to smart devices. Current Centura products are all year 2000 compliant. Centura has 26 offices located throughout the world in North America, Latin America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa. Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.centurasoftware.com

Since its inception in 1984, Centura Software, formerly Gupta, has been a technological leader in the development of tools and databases for the PC platform. Today, the company provides client/server and Web development systems, and its SQLBase is a powerful, PC-based relational database system, which — due to its minimal resource requirements — is especially suited for embedded databases. Centura Software has 26 worldwide locations; 120,000 developers and 1.5 million users work with Centura products. Website: www.centurasoftware.com

More information: http://www.centurasoftware.com