Embarcadero Technologies Enters Asia/Pacific Market With Localized Versions of Its Award Winning Database Management Solutions

Business Wire, July 10, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000

Embarcadero Forms Partnership to Provide Sales, Marketing and Support

with JGC Information Systems, Japan's Premier System Integrator and

Distributor of Database Management Solutions

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: EMBT) provider of database lifecycle management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Embarcadero's DBArtisan and Rapid SQL database management solutions localized for the Asia/Pacific market. Embarcadero's localized version of the ER/Studio database modeling solution will be available later this month.

Additionally, the company announced a strategic partnership with JGC Information Systems Co., LTD. (J-SYS), a leading system integrator and distributor of database management products in the Asia/Pacific region, to provide local sales, marketing and support for the Embarcadero suite of products. The localized versions of the Embarcadero products are available from J-SYS.

Embarcadero's DBArtisan 5.1, Rapid SQL 5.5, and ER/Studio 4.0 offer complete database lifecycle support for design, development and administration of critical applications and their underlying databases. The localized versions feature the same automation and multi-database vendor platform functionality contained in the English language versions, and have been designed to incorporate Japanese double-byte scripting, or Kanji, throughout the user interface. A localized version of Embarcadero's PL/SQL Debugger add-on module is also available.

"As the relationship between database technology and e-business grows more critical, we have seen an increased worldwide demand for our solutions," said Stephen Wong, Embarcadero's president and CEO. "This release underscores Embarcadero's dedication to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our worldwide customer base and, in particular, our commitment to establish ourselves in the sizable Asia/Pacific region as the market leader in multi-platform database design and management solutions."

"Our relationship with Embarcadero Technologies will allow us to deliver best of breed solutions for database lifecycle management in the Asia/Pacific region," said Eishi Takahashi, president of J-SYS. "We have extensive experience with other database management products, but they are not as comprehensive as the Embarcadero solutions. The Embarcadero translation is very important to the Asia/Pacific software market, and gives our users the benefits of incomparable database management technology."

The localization effort brings to Asia/Pacific users Embarcadero's support for Oracle 8i and Microsoft SQL Server 7 e-databases, as well as Sybase and IBM DB2 platforms. The interoperable support, combined with increased automation of schema migration, extraction and synchronization features, makes otherwise lengthy, error-prone e-database system shifts and operations faster and easier to perform. Unlike competing packages, Embarcadero tools offer low up-front costs and deliver immediate results with little-to-no training time.

About Embarcadero Technologies

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMBT), is a leading provider of software solutions that simplify building and managing e-business applications and their underlying databases. Thousands of major companies, including 85 percent of the Fortune 100, have licensed Embarcadero products to maximize the design, development and administration of their mission-critical database applications. The trademarks of the award winning Embarcadero solutions are ease of use and quick time to productivity. Embarcadero's revenues have grown over 100 percent in each of the last two years and the company has been profitable since 1995. Embarcadero oversees worldwide operations from headquarters in San Francisco, CA. For more information, call 415-834-3131 or visit http://www.embarcadero.com.

About JGC Information Systems Co., Ltd

JGC Information Systems Co., Ltd. (J-SYS) (3-6-12 Shin-Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama) is an independent systems integration firm that originated as a subsidiary of the engineering firm JGC Corporation. The company already has more than 10 years of experience in global standards of information technology, such as system development methodologies, data-focused approaches, and Oracle, which it supplies to Nikki for JGC Corporation's worldwide business activities. J-SYS also supplies techniques for practical applications to a wide range of other customers. An impressive record of putting its knowledge into practice has gained J-SYS a reputation for reliability in a wide range of areas. Sales for fiscal year 1998 were 7 billion yen, and the company has 300 employees.

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