Oracle Announces Support for PenPoint; Provides Client Support to New Pen Operating System

April 16, 1992 — Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL), the world’s largest supplier of data management software and services, today announced client support for GO Corporation’s PenPoint operating system.

Oracle will provide a developers toolkit allowing ISVs, VARs, and client/server application developers to build inter-faces between PenPoint and ORACLE and IBM databases. The toolkit will include support for Oracle’s programmatic interfaces as well as a version of SQL*Net, Oracle’s popular client/server networking software. Oracle’s products for the PenPoint operating system are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1992.

“Oracle congratulates GO Corporation on the release of PenPoint,” said Marc R. Benioff, corporate vice president of Oracle’s New Technology Division. “We are looking forward to providing PenPoint developers with a full suite of database development tools for this powerful new operating system for mobile computing.”

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, manufacturing and human resource applications. Oracle products are available on PCs, minicomputers, and mainframes, and Oracle is the first and only open relational 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 traded on NASDAQ/NMS with ticker symbol ORCL.

The Oracle New Technology Division is dedicated to providing application developers consistent, high-level paths, for rapid and continuous adaptation to new technology in the 1990s.

For further information about Oracle, call Oracle world headquarters at (415)506-7000, or write to Oracle Corporation at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, Calif., 94065.

note to Editors: ORACLE and SQL*Net are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. PenPoint is trademark of GO Corporation. Other companies mentioned own numerous trademarks throughout.

CONTACT:
Oracle Corporation – Public Relations
Steve Lai, (415)506-3117
or
Oracle Corporation – New Technology Division
Marc Benioff, (415)506-3610