GUPTA INTRODUCES COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMING FOR CLIENT-SERVER APPLICATIONS 

Gupta SQLWindows 4.0 and Quest 2.0 Feature Team Programming, OOP
Environment and Ease-of-Use

Menlo Park, Calif., January 18, 1993--Gupta Corporation introduced
collaborative programming to the PC client-server market with the
announcement today of Gupta SQLWindows 4.0 and Quest 2.0. The announcement
represents a major leap in PC-based client-server application development
for the enterprise.

Gupta SQLWindows is the leading client-server application development tool
for corporate programmers and Gupta Quest is the leading end-user data
access, query and reporting tool. Both award-winning products are popular
client front-ends for a host of back-ends including Gupta SQLBase Server,
Oracle, Microsoft/Sybase SQL Server, IBM DB2, AS/400, Informix and many
others.

The primary additions to SQLWindows include TeamWindows, a brand new
component that facilitates teams of programmers of varying skills to work
together on enterprise-wide client-server application projects;
QuestWindow, which brings the ease-of-use features of Quest to the
SQLWindows developer, and a complete Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
environment for SQLWindows developers interested in object oriented
programming. These features significantly improve the productivity of
application programs while giving managers increased control and
coordination of application projects.

Other enhancements to SQLWindows include increased support for SQL
backends, complete support for Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE) and richer reporting options in Gupta's
uniquely powerful Report Windows, a completely integrated full-featured
report writer.

Umang P. Gupta, president and CEO said, "With SQLWindows 4.0 we have
lowered the bar and raised the ante. We have lowered the bar for our users
by making it even easier to build client-server applications than ever
before. We have raised the ante for our competitors by introducing
features to the PC client-server market that, up to now, were only
available on larger mainframe-based systems."

TeamWindows

SQLWindows 4.0 now supports collaborative programming through a brand new
component called TeamWindows which provides the ability for teams of
developers to work together on large, client-server application projects.
While facilities for supporting groups of developers working together on
applications have long been common in the mainframe world, until now such
facilities have not been available for client-server computing on PCs.

TeamWindows offers a multi-programmer development environment with a
dictionary driven application generator, check-in and check-out
facilities, security, project management features and source-code and
version control so that developers can share and re-use portions of a
SQLWindows application during its entire life-cycle. TeamWindows initially
uses Gupta SQLBase server as its LAN-based data dictionary and repository.
Future versions will support third party repositories including Oracle and
Sybase.

The primary benefits of TeamWindows for client-server application
programmers are:

* Specialization - TeamWindows allows for task specialization. For example,
a programmer experienced in building application templates may become the
specialist for that task, allowing less-experienced team members to use
those templates for generating and coding their application screens.

* Code reusability-- screens, templates, report programs, object classes
and other application objects can be developed once and stored in the
repository. other programmers can then build applications more rapidly by
pulling together objects from the repository.

* Management Control-- Project managers can monitor every aspect of an
application during its entire life cycle and coordinate the work of all
programmers on the project.

Thus TeamWindows increases individual productivity and ease-of-use, team
productivity and coordination, and managerial productivity and control.

Neal Hill, a senior analyst at Forrester Research said, "The features that
Gupta has introduced with SQLWindows 4.0 are addressing the client-server
development needs that users are crying out for. This product should help
further propel the already fast-growing market for client-server
software."

QuestWindow

Another major addition to SQLWindows is the QuestWindow, providing
increased ease-of-use for the client-server developer.

QuestWindow goes a step further than PowerBuilder's Data Window to make
application development easier and faster by integrating the entire
functionality of Gupta Quest within SQLWindows 4.0. All of Quest's noted
abilities for point-and-click data access and querying become completely
available from SQLWindows, without programming or knowledge of SQL. The
QuestWindow is a boon to developers new to client-server and graphical
programming because they will become more productive faster, and with less
training.

Here's how it works: A programmer drops a fully functional Quest Window --
such as a Browse and Edit Table or Form Window Object directly from the
Tool Palette into a SQLWindows application. Then Quest's point-and-click
interface enables the programmer to quickly and easily produce a database
query (without coding in SQL) and link this query to QuestWindow. The
functionality of this query automatically becomes part of QuestWindow in
the SQLWindows application, enabling the developer to create forms and
tables which can be used to browse, change and add data without writing a
single line of SQL code.

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) Environment

SQLWindows 4.0 also now includes a completely object oriented programming
(OOP) environment with multi-level inheritance, polymorphism and
encapsulation. The object oriented features in SQLWindows have been
introduced in a unique new way so that developers not interested in using
OOP features are not required to use them. They are optional and "hidden"
within the SQLWindows Application Outliner. When a developer is ready to
begin using the OOP facilities, they are available with extensive on-line
Help facilities and step-by-step options. With this approach Gupta is
offering OOP with "training wheels," providing "learn as you go" object
oriented programming.

Some of the classes of objects that can be built with SQLWindows 4.0
include both user-defined and custom window classes as well as functional
classes. Once created, classes can be utilized directly from the tool
palette or browsed via a full-featured class browser.

An introductory set of object classes will ship with SQLWindows 4.0.
Additional class libraries will become available later from Gupta and from
third parties.

Additional SQLWindows Features

SQLWindows 4.0 also has more than 40 significant functional enhancements
made in direct response to broad customer feedback. These enhancements
include full Multiple Document Interface (MDI) and Object Linking and
Embedding (OLE) support and advanced report writing capabilities in Report
Windows including support for Cross Tab and Two Pass Totaling reports.

The SQLWindows Application Language (SAL) has many new enhancements ranging
from a complete set of object oriented extensions to multi-dimensional
arrays and support for functions and parameters in Top-Level Windows.
SQLWindows 4.0 also has improved debugging capabilities.

A new tool called Edit Windows is available for easily translating and
customizing SQLWindows applications to various national languages without
modifying the application source code.

New Versions of Quest

The new versions of Quest include support for data management and querying
using Forms, increased security features, the ability to install and
de-install individual Quest activities, Query templates, support for
Microsoft's OLE standard as both a client and a server, enhanced support
for SQL through a new SQL Activity, increased business reporting power
with cross-tabular and two-pass totaling reports, and new back-end support
for Informix, AS/400 and HP Allbase/SQL.

The addition of the Forms activity to Quest lets end users do data entry
and querying through a more familiar forms-oriented interface, rather than
the current table interface only. End-users can now easily create
forms-based data management interfaces automatically from SQL data and
customize them using graphical painting tools, menus and dialog boxes.
Multi-record table views are available, making master-detail forms easy to
implement.

Quest 2.0 includes all the above enhancements except the Forms activity and
will be available at the same time as SQLWindows 4.0. Quest 2.1 includes
the Forms activity and will be available 90 days later to all Quest 2.0
purchasers free of charge.

Quest 2.0 and 2.1 also have a new SQL Activity feature that allows power
users more comfortable with SQL syntax to enter SQL statements directly,
rather than through the menu interface, and execute them against any
Quest-supported database.

Pricing and Availability

Gupta SQLWindows 4.0 will ship by March 31. It will be offered in two
configurations--the Standard Edition and the Corporate Edition. The
Standard Edition is priced at $1,995 and includes the SQLWindows 4.0
Application Design Module, Report Windows, SQLTalk/Windows, SQLBase for
Windows and the SQLBase Single-User Engine. The Corporate Edition is
priced at $3,495 and includes the SQLWindows 4.0 Standard Edition plus
Quest, TeamWindows and EditWindows.

Gupta Quest 2.0 will ship March 31 for $595. Quest 2.1 will be a
maintenance release available in June and provided free of charge to
purchasers of Quest 2.0.

All prices are U.S. suggested retail prices only.

U.S. customers interested in upgrade information should call
1-800-876-3267.

U.S. Seminar Series

Gupta will hold a series of free, invitation-only seminars demonstrating
collaborative programming with SQLWindows 4.0 and Quest through a live
dramatization of real-world application development. Umang Gupta will be
the featured speaker at the seminars to be held in San Francisco, New York
and Chicago on March 15, 18 and 19, respectively.

About Gupta Corporation

Gupta Corporation, founded in 1984 and based in Menlo Park, Calif., is the
world's leading provider of client-server database systems for PC
networks. Its mission to enable the downsizing/rightsizing of corporate
information systems to PC-LANs with client-server software solutions.
Gupta's products are widely used by Fortune 1000 companies and have been
instrumental in the fast growth of the emerging market for PC-based
client-server software.

The complete Gupta SQL System consists of database servers (Gupta SQLBase),
end-user and application development tools (Gupta SQLWindows and Gupta
Quest) and SQL connectivity software (Gupta SQLNetwork) for connecting
Gupta tools to a host of back ends including IBM DB2, Oracle,
Sybase/Microsoft SQL Server, OS/2 Database Manager, Informix, AS/400, HP
Allbase and TurboImage, Cincom Supra Server and NetWare SQL

Gupta Corp, 1060 Marsh Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
415-321-9500;  Fax: 415-321-5471

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