ANNOUNCE: Press Release - Blackie DBGateway Launches RDBMS/WWW Architecture and Products.

Blackie DBGateway Technologies - Press Release ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blackie Launches First-Generation RDBMS/WWW Gateway Architecture and Products Open Extensible Architecture and Products for the present and the future ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newark, California, USA, June 14, 1995 -- Blackie DBGateway Technologies, today announced its Open Extensible Architecture (OEA), an open and flexible RDBMS/WWW Gateway Architecture that is the basis of the Blackie/WWWEnterprise 15 product line, BWE 15. BWE 15 is designed to address the growing needs of managing the dissemination and collection of information via the WWW. Using BWE 15, information residing in your relational databases can be made accessible to your customers, prospects, employees, business partners, government officials, and to the vast-growing world of on-line users. In addition, you may collect information from these users and deposit it into your databases automatically. BWE 15 has built in user identification, authentication, and authorization features that provide assurance against unauthorized access. It has additional auditing feature to provide an audit trail of database transactions. Your users can be given the ability to run your existing reports or SQL scripts on the WWW. They can also run ad-hoc SQL command or query/update using HTML form. These features are intuitively designed for ease of use. Using simple point and click commands, your users may enter information into your databases and retrieve it from anywhere in the world(1). The WWW server is bundled with the BWE 15. Step-by-step instructions are provided for easy installation on your computer. If you wish to install a WWW browser such as Netscape, Mosaic, or AirMosaic, information is provided along with the BWE 15 to assist you obtaining your desired browser. Product Availability. BWE 15 for Informix and Oracle on SUN workstations running SUN OS and Solaris will be available in third quarter of 1995. Pricing information will be announced prior to the commercial launch. BWE 15 for Sybase and CA-OpenIngres, as well as BWE 15 on other UNIX workstations such as HP, IBM and others will be announced in the third quarter. About Blackie. Blackie is a startup company based in Newark, California. It is located within 10 miles of the Silicon Valley. It provides RDBMS/WWW gateway products for businesses to conduct electronic commerce. Its products run on UNIX workstations made by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company may be reached via Email: market@blackie.com, Fax: (510) 794-9731, URL: http://www.blackie.com, Phone: (510) 793-2552, and mail: 6167 Jarvis Ave., Suite 283, Newark, CA 94560, USA. Footnote (1) Requires Internet access via their Mosaic-like browsers.