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Raining
Data Corporation
Phone:
(949) 442-4400
Fax: (949) 250-8187
Investor/Financial
Contact:
Brian C. Bezdek, Chief Financial Officer
brian.bezdek@rainingdata.com
Marketing/Press
Contact:
Boris Geller, Vice President, Market Development
boris.geller@rainingdata.com
TigerLogic
XML Data Management Server Brings Higher-Performance XML Information
Aggregation To BEA WebLogic Platform Customers
IRVINE,
Calif. - Aug. 4, 2003
Raining
Data Corporation Alliance With BEA Extends Functionality of
BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform Through XML Data Store
Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), a long-time provider
of scalable, flexible and reliable data management software,
today announced integration of its TigerLogic XML Data Management
Server (XDMS) with the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™,
including BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic™ 8.1, BEA WebLogic
Integration™ 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Portal™ 8.1. Today’s
announcement supports the recent availability of BEA WebLogic
Platform™ 8.1, an integrated platform that delivers rapid
business integration through the convergence of application
development and integration, from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
BEAS).
The TigerLogic XDMS allows customers of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise
Platformä to persist data in a native XML store. The product
stores these resulting data views directly in the mid-tier –
between front-end Web clients and back-end operational systems
– so they can be retrieved rapidly. Internal tests show TigerLogic
XDMS performs as much as 10 times faster in finding and presenting
XML data when compared to other data management alternatives.
This performance boost is achieved through patent-pending indexing
and profiling technology.
The
TigerLogic XDMS also increases efficiency by decoupling data
from its back-end sources and leverages BEA’s integration infrastructure
for updating the XML records in the mid-tier as changes are
made at the sources. This means BEA Liquid Data, BEA WebLogic
Integration or BEA WebLogic Portal products’ requests for relatively
static information such as product terms and periodic financial
research will touch back-end systems far less frequently, preserving
precious enterprise processing power for the most critical data
requests – those that need real-time answers or change data
on the fly.
Finally,
and perhaps most importantly, the combination of TigerLogic
XDMS and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform can reduce customers’
data management costs substantially by shifting processing from
the expensive back-end resources to the mid-tier of enterprise
Java and XML application architectures while minimizing development
and maintenance costs.
“The
growth of Web Services and composite applications produces far
more data than traditional systems were designed to handle,
which leaves millions of terabytes sitting idly when such information
could provide real business-changing intelligence,” said Boris
Geller, vice president of market development at Raining Data.
“By adopting XML and working with BEA products to further extend
the capabilities of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, our
TigerLogic XDMS is changing the way IT staff think about data
architectures in much the same way that Java application servers
changed the nature of application architectures in the late
1990s.”
“We’re
pleased that Raining Data is working with BEA WebLogic Enterprise
Platform to bring higher-performance XML information aggregation
to our customers,” said Scott Edgington, vice president and
general manager, global software partners.
About
Raining Data
Raining Data Corporation (Nasdaq: RDTA), headquartered in Irvine,
California, has been providing reliable data management and
rapid application deployment solutions for developers of database
applications for more than two decades. Raining Data's flagship
products include: 1) high-performance TigerLogic™ XML Data Management
Server (XDMS), which provides flexible, scalable and extensible
storage and retrieval of critical business data across a variety
of structured and unstructured information sources, delivering
mid-tier scalability and transactional integrity of enterprise
databases as well as dynamic extensibility and ease of use,
mostly found in repositories and file systems; 2) D3®,
mvEnterprise® and mvBase® family of powerful Pick®
based hierarchical multi-dimensional database management systems
that are the choice of more than a thousand application developers
worldwide; 3) the Pick Data Provider for .Net™ which allows
D3,
UniData® and UniVerse® database platform users to take
advantage of the .Net Framework by utilizing Microsoft Visual
Studio® .NET by serving as a bridge between an application
and the data source; and 4) Omnis Studio®, a powerful, cross-platform,
object-oriented RAD tool for developing sophisticated thick-client,
Web-client or ultra thin-client database applications.
The
Raining Data customer installed base includes more than 500,000
active users, representing over 20,000 customer sites worldwide
with a significant base of diverse vertical applications. With
over 150 employees in four countries, the company has an extensive
distribution channel, 24x7 customer support and a strong international
presence. More information about Raining Data Corporation and
its products can be found at www.rainingdata.com
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Except
for the historical facts contained herein, the foregoing release
contains forward-looking statements regarding the use and market
for mid-tier operational data servers and the ability for TigerLogic
XDMS to integrate with other applications or products, to reduce
certain costs and to meet certain needs. Actual results could
differ materially from those expressed in any such forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to
risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the market
acceptance of TigerLogic XDMS and other products and updates,
the success of the Company’s research and development efforts
to develop new products, technical risks related to the Company’s
products and updates and other risks and uncertainties. Please
consult the various reports and documents filed by Raining Data
Corporation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including but not limited to the Company’s most recent reports
on Form 10-KSB and Form 10-QSB. All forward-looking statements
are made as of the date hereof and the Company disclaims any
responsibility to update or revise any forward-looking statement
provided in this release.
Raining
Data, Pick, D3, mvEnterprise, mvDesigner, mvBase,
Omnis and Omnis Studio are registered trademarks and TigerLogic
is a trademark of Raining Data Corporation. All other trademarks
and registered trademarks are properties of their respective
owners.
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