Automation Technology, Inc. -ATI- Announces the Availability Of OpenAccess SDK V3.6 For Building Native OLE DB Drivers To Non-SQL Databases

Business Wire, May 20, 1999

SAN JOSE, CA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1999--

ATI is happy to announce the availability of OpenAccess(TM) SDK V3.6, the quickest way to build a robust OLE DB driver for your data source.

The OpenAccess(TM) OLE DB SDK delivers the easiest and headache-free way of building a complete OLE DB driver with SQL capability for your proprietary, legacy, object, or COM-based data source. OpenAccess(TM) allows independent software vendors (ISV) as well as corporate IT organizations to provide complete client/server access to these data source on all of today's popular platforms.

The OpenAccess(TM) OLE DB SDK leverages the strengths and features of our robust ODBC SDK product. Using the same interface to our SQL engine, developers now can create both native ODBC as well as OLE DB within days using our simple to use toolkit. Existing users of our ODBC SDK can simply recompile and, within hours, have a full functioning OLE DB driver with SQL handling capability.

"Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is excited to have ATI as a partner in supporting OLE DB and Microsoft's Universal Data Access (UDA) strategy. ATI's OpenAccess(TM) OLE DB SDK makes UDA a reality by simplifying the process of creating robust OLE DB providers. Using the OpenAccess(TM) OLE DB SDK enables ISVs and corporate developers to build a fully functional OLE DB provider in just a few days. Providers developed with the OpenAccess(TM) OLE DB SDK support SQL, and can be called by ADO or any other OLE DB consumer in your application. Microsoft is looking forward to many new OLE DB data sources being developed via the OpenAccess(TM) OLE DB SDK," stated Joe Sherman, Lead Program Manager OLE DB, Microsoft Corporation.

ATI is also happy to announce that Westinghouse Process Control, Inc., a subsidiary of Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR), has adapted OLE DB using OpenAccess(TM) SDK. "We at Westinghouse Process Control are committed to Microsoft's UDA strategy. As a supplier of high-end mission critical Distributed Control Systems (DCS), we have been committed to the open system philosophy. As such, we are happy to be the first DCS vendor to announce the availability of OLE DB to our real-time process database and data historian as part of our Ovation DCS. OpenAccess SDK made supporting this standard a much shorter task then we had ever imagined," stated Bob Yeager, Director, Product Development, Westinghouse Process Control, Inc.

ATI, based in San Jose, Calif., is a leading provider of enabling technology for accessing and managing non-SQL, proprietary, legacy, and object database systems. ATI's products, which ATI provides through ISVs, OEMs, VARs and end-users, include the popular OpenAccess(TM) SDK for ODBC and OLE DB as well as OpenRDA for SQL Server connectivity from all non-Windows platforms. For additional information about ATI's products or services, please contact (408) 473-0200 or on the internet at http://www.odbcsdk.com.

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