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Datalogix GEMMS process manufacturing software available on Sequent; on Sequent SMP Systems, GEMMS provides scalable enterprise solution

Business Wire, Sept 19, 1995

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 1995--Sequent Computer Systems Inc. and Datalogix International Inc. today announced the worldwide availability of the Datalogix(R) Global Enterprise Manufacturing Management System (GEMMS)(R) software solution on Sequent(R) Symmetry(R) symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems.

GEMMS is an open client/server software application designed to manage the manufacturing and logistics operations of worldwide process manufacturing companies.

Enterprise customers need access to the huge volume of information their production processes generate. GEMMS, on the highly available, high-performance Sequent SMP platform, ensures vital access to these large-scale data stores for up-to-the-minute status of the production process and analysis of enterprise cost data for quick and effective business decisions.

Under the new agreement, Sequent and Datalogix will jointly market and sell GEMMS to new and existing customers in addition to working on other cooperative product development initiatives. Sequent will integrate and support the installed solutions. In the United States, GEMMS is jointly marketed by Datalogix and Oracle Corp.(R); outside the United States, it is available from Oracle as Oracle GEMMS.

"Our investment in GEMMS is part of our strategy to make available a portfolio of enterprise software offerings for manufacturing and financial operations of global 1,000 companies," said Ross Summers, vice president of marketing at Sequent. "As our first offering designed to address process manufacturers' production and logistics areas, GEMMS complements our other Oracle-based software solutions, which meet the needs of discrete manufacturing operations."

The agreement between Sequent and Datalogix leverages Sequent's experience in successfully delivering solutions based on Oracle Financials. The availability of GEMMS is an extension of Sequent's Oracle applications offerings and builds on Sequent's track record with high-end enterprise Oracle applications with 350 Oracle applications implementation and installation sites in 25 countries worldwide.

"We are pleased to be able to offer GEMMS on Sequent's scalable and highly available open systems platform," said Richard C. Giordanella, Datalogix president and CEO. "We are also excited about the opportunity to leverage Sequent's close working relationship with Oracle, both as a sales partner and as a primary high-end development environment for Oracle software."

About GEMMS

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GEMMS is designed for large, multinational enterprises with sophisticated requirements for managing multiple plants and distribution centers across different countries, languages and currencies. At the core of GEMMS is a complete, open and flexible data model which serves as the "blueprint" of the process enterprise.

GEMMS' functionality spans the enterprise, becoming a corporate infrastructure standard for automating all critical manufacturing logistics, research and development, and financial functions through planning, execution and decision support.

About Datalogix

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Established in 1981, Datalogix International Inc. (Nasdaq: DLGX), is a leading provider of process manufacturing software worldwide, serving the entire process manufacturing market, from small companies to large multinational enterprises. With headquarters in Valhalla, N.Y., Datalogix pioneered the development of open systems software solutions for managing the manufacturing, logistics and financial operations of process manufacturing companies worldwide.

Datalogix solutions are installed in more than 30 countries at hundreds of process manufacturers such as AlliedSignal Inc., The B.F. Goodrich Company, The Boots Company PLC, Cargill Incorporated, Heinz Pet Products, Platres Lafarge and Revlon Consumer Products Division. For more information regarding Datalogix, please call 1-800-4-PROCESS.

About Sequent

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Sequent Computer Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: SQNT), based in Beaverton, Ore., is a leading architect and provider of open client/server systems for business computing. Sequent provides professional consulting, educational and support services, and develops scalable multiprocessing computing systems. The World Wide Web address for Sequent Online is http://www.sequent.com/. This news release and other information is available from Sequent's news-on-demand fax service at 800-356-0834.

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Computer Systems Inc.

Datalogix and Datalogix GEMMS are registered trademarks of

Datalogix International Inc.

Oracle, Oracle Financials and Oracle GEMMS are registered

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CONTACT: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

Kathi VanderZanden, 503/626-5700

kathi@sequent.com

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