Gupta to Build Direct Links Between SQLWindows and TUXEDO Services
Facilitating More Robust, Higher Transaction Applications

New integration will allow developers to easily access and invoke server
logic directly from within their SQLWindows client/server applications

Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 1994 -- Gupta Corporation (NASDAQ:GPTA)
announced today that it will provide customers with direct links between
Gupta SQLWindows and Novell's TUXEDO System. The new integration will
allow developers building client/server systems with SQLWindows to easily
access and invoke server logic directly from within their SQLWindows
applications.

As the number of critical client/server applications being deployed
increases daily, there is a growing emphasis on higher security and
performance. Both these goals are better realized by placing part of the
application logic of a client/server application on the server machine.
SQLWindows is the market leading Windows product for building the client
side of a client/server application. By integrating SQLWindows' ability to
build the client side of an application with TUXEDO's ability to
facilitate robust, high transaction applications on the server side,
customers will have the most powerful tool on the market for confidently
building enterprise client/server applications on PC networks.

TUXEDO belongs to a class of products known as Transaction Monitors, and
provides intra-application coordination and communications in large system
environments. A TUXEDO Service is similar to a Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
or Stored Procedure and is essentially application logic that runs on the
server but is triggered by the client application. However, applications
written to include TUXEDO Services have the ability to run many more
Transactions Per Second (TPS) than either RPCs or Stored Procedures.
Tuxedo Services run under the control of a Transaction Monitor, such as
TUXEDO.

Transaction Monitors enable the deployment of high user, high volume, high
transaction applications typified within banks and car rental companies.
For example, in a banking application, TUXEDO Services might include
Debit, Credit and Transfer Account orders. In a car rental application,
Services might include Reserve Car, Rent Car and Return Car orders.

SQLWindows/TUXEDO integration helps provide Gupta customers with
distributed application support, in which application logic resides both
on the client and the server machine. By allowing SQLWindows developers to
build TUXEDO Services directly from within their applications, SQLWindows
becomes even more attractive to customers requiring a robust tool for
building high-transaction, enterprise client/server applications.

Using a new graphical TUXEDO Services Browser utility and directly from
within the SQLWindows environment, Gupta developers will be able to easily
use point-and-click techniques to build in direct access to the
application-oriented services offered by TUXEDO. The new TUXEDO Services
Browser utility will effectively raise the current development interface
from the systems-oriented one of TUXEDO to a more graphical and
applications-oriented interface familiar to and favored by SQLWindows
developers.

Ron Wolf, Gupta's director of technology alliances said, "For the last few
years we've watched many large customers build far-reaching and robust
client/server applications using a combination of SQLWindows and TUXEDO.
However, to create this integration programmers had to write a great deal
of complex code. Therefore, we are especially pleased to provide the power
of TUXEDO directly from within our own product in a graphical
point-and-click fashion, and bring to market a system that significantly
enhances SQLWindows' usability for developing high transaction,
client/server applications."

"Novell and Gupta have worked together to build products that enhance the
functionality of client/server applications, and ease their development.
The access to TUXEDO Services through a simple SQLWindows interface will
make powerful OLTP services more accessible to a broader community of
application developers," said Joe Menard, vice president and general
manager of Novell's TUXEDO Systems Group. "The link will allow developers
to easily harness TUXEDO application services that reside on UnixWare or
other UNIX platforms for use in their client application."

By providing SQLWindows integration with TUXEDO, Gupta continues to build
upon its TIE (Tools Integration for The Enterprise ) strategy for ensuring
SQLWindows is the most powerful and robust tool for building enterprise
client/server applications. Gupta's TIE Architecture provides a blueprint
for the primary entry points into the SQLWindows system available to third
party developers. The integration between SQLWindows and TUXEDO falls
under the SQL and RPC Interface and will be used to link SQLWindows to
other transaction monitor products. Other directions for follow-on
products include:

* Integration with object request brokers.
* The browsing of database stored procedures.
* SQLWindows as a comprehensive application development tool
  for building both server and client applications.

A Broad Look at How the System Works:

Customers have previously linked their SQLWindows applications to TUXEDO
Services through system-level application calls, but only after writing
extensive code and building the links via Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs).

In the new system leveraging TIE, information about TUXEDO Services will be
stored in The Gupta Open Repository. Other available information will be
automatically extracted from the TUXEDO System and additional information
will be entered by developers through Gupta's Repository Manager.
Developers view all aspects of service definitions via Gupta's new TUXEDO
Services Browser, which supplements the existing browsers in the
SQLWindows development environment.

The TUXEDO Services Browser will automatically present developers with all
possible correct options for incorporating TUXEDO Services into their
application and using drill down techniques help guide developers into
making the correct development choices. By enforcing proper development
techniques enterprise applications are deployed faster because they work
better initially. Additionally, developers enjoy the ability to work at
all times time with a high level GUI view of all available TUXEDO
Services.

Availability

SQLWindows support for TUXEDO Services will be in beta testing in Q2 '94
and available by Q3 '94.

Gupta Corporation (NASDAQ:GPTA), founded in 1984 and based in Menlo Park,
Calif., is a leading provider of PC client/server systems software.
Gupta's products ale used by Fortune 1000 companies to downsize/rightsize
applications to PC networks and the enterprise. The company's Windows tool
product, Gupta SQLWindows, is the most robust and popular PC client/server
development tool in the world. Over 70,000 copies of its tools software
(Quest and SQLWindows) and over 100,000 copies of SQLBase, Gupta's
database server optimized for PCs, have been sold worldwide.

Gupta's SQLBase Server pioneered the market for PC client/server databases.
The NLM version established a new price/performance standard for PC
client/server databases. Gupta SQLWindows has been instrumental in the
growth of applications developed for client/server networks. Gupta Quest
is a data access, query and reporting tool for end-users and Gupta
SQLNetwork is a family of software products for connecting Gupta tools and
servers to other server data sources including IBM DB2, AS/400 and
Database Manager, ORACLE, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, Informix,
Ingres, HP/ALLBASE and TurboIMAGE, Cincom SUPRA Server and others.

Gupta Corp, 1060 Marsh Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
415-321-9500;  Fax: 415-321-5471

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