For Immediate Release
Embarcadero Technologies Extends DBArtisan Support For OS/390 Mainframe
Partnership With Leading OS/390 Software Development Firm
Demonstrates Embarcadero’s Commitment to the Enterprise
San Francisco, Calif. - January 22, 2003
- Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMBT), a leading
provider of application and database lifecycle management solutions, today
announced a strategic partnership with Rocket Software, Inc., a provider of
software solutions for a number of global OEM partners. Under the agreement,
the two companies will immediately begin enhancing DBArtisan®, the market-leading
database administration solution, with exclusive features to support IBM® DB2 for
OS/390. This extension of support will greatly enhance the tool’s functionality and
features and will allow users to improve database administration across the
enterprise.
This partnership with Rocket signifies Embarcadero’s commitment to providing the
growing number of IBM users on the mainframe with DBArtisan’s innovative, user-friendly
features that simplify management of database infrastructures, significantly reducing
the time and costs of managing multiple databases. With Embarcadero’s existing strength
in IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB), DBArtisan is the most complete cross-platform
solution for maintaining enterprise databases.
"In a company like Aetna, the database is key to providing our customers with the
highest level of service, responsiveness and accuracy for their Healthcare needs.
Based on our needs, Embarcadero Technologies’ products were the best choice for us
to ensure the quality of those databases," said Michael Mathias, director of database
and Internet technologies at Aetna. "As a long-time customer of Embarcadero
Technologies, we look forward to their extending OS/390 support which we feel will
further enhance the value of Embarcadero’s software to our enterprise."
"This partnership will yield compelling advantages to our customers," said Stephen
Wong, chief executive officer, Embarcadero Technologies. "For years, our enterprise
customers have asked us to extend DBArtisan to support DB2 on the mainframe.
By collaborating with Rocket Software and leveraging their vast domain expertise in
this area, we will accelerate the delivery of deeper support for DB2 on the mainframe.
DBArtisan for OS/390 will offer customers an attractive alternative for reducing the
total cost of managing database infrastructure on mainframe platforms."
"Rocket Software’s experience as a leading developer creating technology and building
software, with particular expertise in OS/390, makes our partnership with Embarcadero
a natural fit to develop DBArtisan for the OS/390 mainframe," said Andy Youniss, chief
executive officer, Rocket Software. "By leveraging our combined experience and
technology for the next-generation of DBArtisan, Rocket Software and Embarcadero
will create a unique product to efficiently manage database infrastructure, relieving
strain on the enterprise database administrators."
DBArtisan is the leading database administration solution for managing Oracle®,
Sybase®, Microsoft® SQL Server and IBM DB2 Universal Databases. Its rich feature
set helps database professionals maximize the availability, performance and security
of databases throughout the enterprise. DBArtisan enables DBAs to concurrently manage
multiple databases from a single graphical console, creating dramatic productivity
gains for both experienced and novice database professionals.
About Rocket Software, Inc.
Rocket Software, Inc. has been extending software product portfolios, building Fortune
500 markets worldwide, and providing related value-added services for global OEM
partners since 1990. Rocket presently maintains active release schedules for products
that include security, data management, network management, storage management, and
business intelligence in 20 national languages. Rocket’s OEM products are found in
Fortune 500 companies in all the major industries, including: banking and finance,
insurance, telecom, healthcare, pharmaceutical, transportation, energy, heavy and
light manufacturing, agriculture, retail, chemical, as well as local, state and
federal government. Contact Rocket Software at http://www.rocketsoftware.com.
About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMBT), is a leading provider of software
solutions that enable organizations to build, optimize and manage databases and
applications supporting today’s critical enterprise systems. Thousands of customers,
including more than 90 of the Fortune 100, rely on Embarcadero Technologies products
to ensure optimal performance of the complex, multi-platform applications and systems
that power their business. Embarcadero Technologies, named to the Deloitte & Touche
Fast 500 for three consecutive years, is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For
more information, call 415/834-3131 or visit http://www.embarcadero.com.
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