EXHIBIT 99.22
Mark Carpenter
Marketing Communications Manager
emWare, Inc.
+1(801) 256-3883 ext. 112
mailto:mcarpenter@emware.com
CENTURA SOFTWARE CORPORATION
PRESS RELEASE
CENTURA AND EMWARE PARTNER TO PROVIDE FRAMEWORK FOR ADDING
BUSINESS LOGIC TO EMBEDDED DEVICE NETWORKS.
CENTURA JOINS EMBED THE INTERNET CONSORTIUM AS A FOUNDING MEMBER
REDWOOD SHORES, CA. (OCTOBER 12, 1998) -- Centura Software Corporation
(NASDAQ: CNTR / formerly Gupta Corporation) today announces a partnership
with emWare, Inc., the leading provider of distributed device networking
software. Centura and emWare will co-market and sell a software package
comprised of emWare's EMIT-Registered Trademark- (Embedded Micro
Internetworking Technology-TM-) and Centura's new Thin Application Server,
code-name Blazer. The combined product bundle will be the first
commercially available software solution that enables devices with 8- and
16-bit microcontrollers to access corporate networks, directory services
and business logic. Centura has also joined 11 other industry leaders as a
founding member of emWare's Embed The Internet Consortium (ETI) to deliver
low-cost solutions for home, business and industrial equipment products.
"It's only natural that Centura extend our client/server expertise in the
Windows platform to new non-PC, server-centric platforms such as PDAs and
smart appliances," explains Kathy Lane, senior vice president of strategic
alliances for Centura. "With a combination of Blazer and EMIT software, a
remote embedded device becomes another node in a distributed computing
network. Using the unique application partitioning features in Blazer,
developers can extend and execute the same business logic and network
services to non-PC devices as they can to any PC."
Using Centura's Thin Application Server, EMIT-enabled devices like
electric utility meters and vending machines will be fully integrated
with the information and processes transacted on Microsoft Transaction
Servers (MTS), Oracle's Application Servers and BEA's Tuxedo as well as
other leading application and transaction platforms. Centura and
emWare's solution is the first economical solution to allow home
electric meters to report usage online to a database server or generate
statistics on customer behavior, trends, and problem alerts.
"EMIT brings flexible device networking solutions to intelligent devices,"
states Christopher Sontag, chief technology officer and co-founder of
emWare, Inc. "Centura's Thin
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Application Server provides new opportunities by extending business
logic to transactions. Thanks to the combination of Centura and emWare's
technology, these devices can now communicate with a number of different
network databases, directory services and other enterprise applications."
Blazer offers an easy, open development and integration environment. A
single Blazer server can handle and support thousands of EMIT-enabled
devices and dozens of applications. Management is easy because Blazer uses
small execution components called Scriplets to handle and control
application logic, integration and behavior. Written in Visual Basic or
Java Script, these scriptlets call COM- and Java-based objects as well as
ODBC data sources. The execution occurs in Blazer to allow integration and
access to unlimited backend services. This method of programming goes
beyond traditional distributed computing by creating a true "virtual
computer" where one device can use any resource available on the network.
Blazer supports an architecture using a high performance server that can
load as many Scriplets as needed to achieve high scalability. The server
side components have a small footprint of less than 150k in size, with
total component size less than 3mb of hard disk space. Blazer is currently
available for beta testing and will be on the market in Q1 1999.
At the core of EMIT software's distributed device networking architecture
is the industry's smallest micro Web server that uses as little as 1Kb of
memory at the device. Standard Internet technologies, such as Java, HTTP
and a Web browser interface are used to access, control and monitor devices
through emGateway, the communication link between IP networks and
lightweight networks, such as I(2)C-TM-, RS485, CAN, and RF.
ABOUT CENTURA SOFTWARE CORPORATION
Centura Software (NASDAQ:CNTR), founded as Gupta in 1984, was the first
company to create fully relational client/server embedded DBMS for the
personal computer. Centura's D3 Framework (Develop, Deploy and
Distributed) consists of world-class products including SQLBase, Centura
Team Developer and Centura net.db, all of which can scale from the Web down
to smart devices. Current Centura products are all year 2000 compliant.
Centura has 26 offices located throughout the world in North America, Latin
America, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. More information
about the company and its products is located on Centura's Web site at
www.centurasoft.com.
About emWare
emWare is the sole provider of distributed embedded networking software
that delivers Internet connectivity to virtually any device, including
those using 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, without requiring an RTOS or a
TCP/IP stack at the device. The company develops products based on open
Internet standards that allow embedded device manufacturers to simplify the
use, management and commerce of their products. emWare partners with
microcontroller manufacturers, enterprise solution providers, and other
technology companies to deliver networking solutions to
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virtually any device across any network. The company is based in Salt
Lake City. For more information, see www.emware.com.
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