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.

Press Contacts:
Birdie Fenzel
Novell, Inc.
Internet: bfenzel@novell.com (201) 443-5467
http: //tuxedo.novell.com

Kirsten Kappos
For Gupta Corporation
Shafer Public Relations
(415) 989-0595
 
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