---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Oracle Announces SQL*FORMS And SQL*MENU For OPEN LOOK Users SunFLASH Vol 30 #19 June 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a third party product announcement from Oracle. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Corporation Sun Microsystems Matt Duncan/Steve/Lai Cathleen Beall Garfield 415/506-4175/311 415/336-6536 Redwood Shores, Calif., June 4, 1991 - Oracle Corporation today announced the availability of SQL*Forms 3.0 and SQL*Menu 5.0 for the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface (GUI) for Sun SPARC based systems. These products demonstrate Oracle's commitment to the Sun platform and are a result of a strategic relationship between Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems. "The UNIX marketplace is about open systems and the choices they offer our customers. Oracle's window Toolkit technology provides Oracle and Sun customers with the option to now choose the OPEN LOOK graphical user interface with Oracle products. We view Sun as a major player in the UNIX maketplace and a key strategic partner for Oracle," said Jerry Baker, senior vice president of Oracle's systems product division. "Oracle's support for OPEN LOOK is a significant milestone in the Sun/Oracle alliance. OPEN LOOK's intuitive operation can be a big advantage to database users," said Ed Zander, president of Sun's system software subsidiary, SunSoft. "The close cooperation between Sun and Oracle insures ongoing tuning for optimal database and system performance," he added. Oracle's SQL*Forms and SQL*Menu products are development tools designed to create powerful applications that are also very easy to use. The OPEN LOOK windowing environment provides developers with a rich and complete object-oriented, drag-and-drop environment that gives them integration among tools and a simple way to build their applications by pointing and clicking with a mouse. SQL*Forms 3.0 and SQL*Menu 5.0 for OPEN LOOK are the first of many other bitmapped Oracle products that will also be made available with OPEN LOOK GUI. SQL*Forms, SQL*Menu and other bitmapped products are based on Oracle Toolkit, an enabling software product layered between Oracle products and a hardware platform's windowing environment. The Oracle Toolkit provides complete portability for tools and applications to multiple graphical and non-graphical user interfaces. Applications developed in SQL*Forms version 3.0 and SQL*Menu version 5.0 can run without change in character mode terminals, block mode terminals, OPEN LOOK, and other GUIs without any code changes, and with full exploitation of the native look and feel of the underlying windowing system. Thus, applications can be migrated from character mode platforms and GUI environments to OPEN LOOK, taking full advantage of this highly productive and intuitive user interface. Oracle Corporation, the market leader in UNIX software and UNIX RDBMS market, and Sun Microsystems, the world's leading workstation company, are working closely together through a recently created joint strategic marketing agreement. These product announcements are the first of several joint product and technology developments and signify both companies' commitment to their alliance in the UNIX marketplace. SQL*Forms 3.0 and SQL*Menu 5.0 for Sun are available immediately and are priced starting at $570. About Oracle Oracle Corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, Calif., is the largest supplier of DBMS software and the third largest software and services company in the world. Oracle develops and markets an integrated line of software products for database management, computer-aided systems engineering (CASE), applications development, decision support and office automation, as well as families of financial and human resource applications. Oracle products are available on PCs minicomputers and mainframes, and ORACLE is the first and only database to run on massively parallel supercomputers. 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 trades on NASDAQ/NMS with ticker symbol ORCL. For further information about Oracle, call Oracle world headquarters at (415) 506-7000, or write to Oracle Corporation at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065. About Sun Sun Microsystems is the world's supplier of client/server computing solutions, which feature networked workstations and servers that store, process and distribute information. Used for many demanding commercial and technical applications, Sun's products command the largest share of the computer industry's fastest-growing market segment: workstations and servers. The company, founded in 1982, and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a multi-billion dollar corporation doing business worldwide. ORACLE is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation UNIX and OPEN LOOK are registed trademarks of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. 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