ORACLE ANNOUNCES FIRST MODELING TOOL TO GENERATE VISUAL BASIC APPLICATIONS

BRINGS BENEFITS OF SECOND GENERATION CLIENT/SERVER MODELING TO VISUAL

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 19 -- Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) today announced
Designer/2000 Release 1.2, the first modeling tool software to generate
code for Microsoft's Visual Basic-based applications. This capability
enables Visual Basic 3.0 developers to use the advanced, second generation
client/server modeling power of Designer/2000 to build Visual Basic
applications reducing the amount of manual coding and increasing developer
productivity.

Designer/2000 is Oracle's tool for application modeling and automatic
generation of fully functional, client/server applications. The product
supports business process reengineering (BPR), system analysis and design,
and automatic code generation. In addition to Visual Basic code,
Designer/2000 generates database designs for Oracle7 and other SQL
databases, as well as client/server and partitioned Developer/2000
application code.

Automatic Generation of Visual Basic Code

With this release, Designer/2000 becomes the industry's first CASE tool to
generate Visual Basic applications and demonstrates Oracle's commitment to
open systems. The functionality delivered with Designer/2000 includes
automatic generation of both database designs and client/server
applications. Designer/2000 permits Visual Basic developers, for the first
time, to easily generate partitioned application code and enforce
enterprise user interface standards. Additionally, Designer/2000 includes
a repository which adds team support to the Visual Basic environment.

"Designer/2000 Release 1.2 brings the benefits of second generation
client/server modeling to a broader range of developers than ever before,"
said Ian Thacker, Oracle's senior vice president of European Development.
"This latest release empowers developers to deliver applications to more
users, with more openness than any other modeling tool on the market."

Oracle customers are pleased with the availability of the first design tool
on the market to offer generation of Visual Basic code. "I have always
recommended Oracle CASE, now Designer/2000, to our Oracle development
projects," said Ronan Miles, senior technical architect, BT (formerly
British Telecom). "The product has demonstrated that it can capture the
analysis of, and then physically produce, Oracle databases. The
application generation features have proven capable of giving a flying
start to programmers when we have been using one of the supported
languages."

Miles adds, "The Oracle Visual Basic generator for Designer/2000 is an
encouraging addition to the Oracle generator products range. In trials it
has proven well-able to generate Oracle, database-centric Visual Basic
applications to a standard that is expected from most Visual Basic
programmers. Additionally, the inclusion of a Visual Basic development
environment with CASE-driven, team working is very welcome."

Computer-Based Training, "Cue Cards" and Multilingual Support

With Designer/2000, it is now easier than ever before for client/server
developers to leverage the efficiency and scalability benefits of a
premium design tool. Release 1.2 of Designer/2000 offers Computer-Based
Training (CBT) lessons and "cue cards" to help new users of the product
learn special tips and techniques for designing and generating scalable,
client/server applications. Cue cards provide users with on-line,
trouble-shooting solutions to easily deliver complex functionality to the
novice Designer/2000 user.

Designer/2000, along with Developer/2000, deliver the only client/server
development suite on the market to offer multilingual support for European
and Asian languages. By leveraging a multilingual architecture, a single
application generated in Designer/2000 can be deployed in any of the
supported languages which include Chinese, Korean, Thai and Japanese.
Global, native language documentation, support and consulting are also
available from Oracle.

Designer/2000 Release 1.2 is scheduled to be available on Windows 3.1,
Windows NT WOW and Win-OS/2, Nov. 1. The Visual Basic Generator feature is
available immediately. Designer/2000 for Windows 95 is scheduled to be
available in the first quarter of 1996. Pricing for the product is $3,995
in the United States. Supported customers of Designer/2000 and prior
Oracle CASE releases are eligible to receive the upgrade at no charge.

Designer/2000 is Oracle's modeling tool for client/server development,
incorporating support for system analysis, software design, code
generation and BPR. Through its active repository, and tight integration
with Developer/2000 and the Oracle7 database, Designer/2000 provides the
second generation productivity and reliability required to build complex,
highly scalable, competitive systems.

Oracle Corp., a $3 billion company, is the world's largest supplier of
software for information management, and the world's second largest
software company. The company offers its database, tools and application
products along with related consulting, education and support services, in
more than 90 countries around the world.

For more information about Oracle, please call 415-506-7000. Oracle's World
Wide Web address is http://www.oracle.com/.
 
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