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Novell TUXEDO System Gains Support by Centura from Gupta Corporation New Client/Server Development Tool Automates Access to Services of Three-Tier Enterprise Applications OREM, Utah — January 24, 1996 — Novell®, Inc. today announced support for the TUXEDO® System by Centura Team Developer, a new application development tool for three-tier (client, application server and data-base server), enterprise client/server applications from Gupta Corporation. Centura Team Developer, a new high-end development environment, incorporates ®wizard' technology (pre-programmed routines for accomplishing a series of tasks) specifically designed to greatly simplify the development of graphical applications accessing the services of three-tier client/server environments such as Novell's TUXEDO System. Together, TUXEDO System and Centura automate access to the services of enterprise applications for end users needing to more quickly and easily develop and deploy mission-critical applications. Three-tier client/server computing is the preferred architectural approach for implementing reliable, scalable distributed applications. In a three-tier TUXEDO System environment, application service components are "advertised" and can be accessed by authorized requestors, such as desktop client applications. Centura simplifies access to these TUXEDO managed service components by automatically generating the interface and communication code connecting the client and service tiers. Centura's three-tier wizard, and the complementary Centura TUXEDO Deployment Suite, automate the generation of messages, service invocations, and underlying network connections, freeing developers to concentrate on business logic and the user's interface to the application. Centura works with TUXEDO System interfaces, so desktop application developers don't have to. The direct result is more rapid, error free three-tier application development. "As a consultant who has developed client/server applications using TUXEDO for mission-critical needs, I see great potential for the joint use of Centura and TUXEDO to develop scalable three-tier applications," said Chris Schmitt, president of Santosha Computer Works. "Centura's three-tier wizard will greatly simplify the development of enterprise-scale TUXEDO applications." "We welcome Gupta's new Centura product line and its support for TUXEDO System," said Joe Menard, vice president and general manager of Novell's TUXEDO Systems Group. "Centura's Application wizard provides application developers with a tool that greatly increases their productivity by presenting knowledge about the server environment to the developer at development time." About Centura Centura Team Developer is a development environment that enables customers to rapidly build high-end, graphical client applications. Increasingly, client applications are designed to access a wide array of mission-critical applications across public and private networks. Centura is designed for these three-tier application architectures and directly supports transparent integration with TUXEDO environments. In a three-tier application architecture, application developers use TUXEDO to logically partition client and server components of an application. The server side of the application generally encapsulates business logic and data access into small "remote subroutines" usually referred to as components or services. The Centura wizard technology and TUXEDO Deployment suite automate the development process of integrating Centura applications with application components that are developed and run on an application server. Centura transparently generates code for connecting the clients and application server tiers of the three-tier applications, enabling end users to develop mission-critical distributed applications in less time, and without using 3GL code to access the TUXEDO System. "Our customers are evolving to a three-tier client/server architecture and Centura is positioned as a leading development tool for three-tier applications," said Earl Stahl, chief technology officer, Gupta Corporation. "Gupta recognizes TUXEDO as a leading three-tier application service environment and we have built TUXEDO System support into our flagship product, Centura." About TUXEDO Novell's TUXEDO System is the market-leading distributed transaction processing monitor with more than 40 percent of the market, providing an integrated environment for applications with client, application server and data tiers. Typically, TUXEDO System applications are designed to support applications critical to finance, manufacturing, retail management, online information service, new forms of electronic commerce, and many other industries. TUXEDO is a central part of Novell's strategy to extend distributed network services and APIs to support applications running across diverse client and server platforms on a Smart Global Network. TUXEDO runs on more than 35 platforms including NetWare and Microsoft Windows NT, and can be accessed from virtually any intelligent client. TUXEDO System 6.1, the most current version of the product, is available from Novell and its OEM partners. For more information, contact a local Novell office. Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), is the world's leading networking software provider. Novell software provides the infrastructure for a networked world, enabling our customers to connect with other people and the information they need, anytime and anyplace. Novell partners with other technology and market leaders to help customers make networks a part of their everyday lives.
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