EMC Customer Wins Grand Prize in Database Scalability Program; Winter Corp. Spotlights The Dialog Corporation As Category Leader

Business Wire, March 12, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001

Winter Corporation, a leading center of expertise in database scalability for e-business, enterprise applications and business intelligence, announced today that EMC Corporation customer, The Dialog Corporation, has won a Grand Prize in Database Scalability Program 2000. Dialog, headquartered in Cary, N.C., provides online information services to organizations in business, science, engineering, finance, law, and other fields. The Dialog implementation consists of a proprietary DBMS, an Amdahl Corporation server and an EMC storage solution.

Database Scalability Program 2000 analyzes the characteristics of the world's largest databases and examines databases supporting the world's largest workloads. These vast data repositories anchor e-commerce, business intelligence, supply-chain management, customer relationship management, resource management, and other business-critical applications.

Database Scalability Program 2000 is sponsored by EMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Informix Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, NCR Corporation, NetGenesis Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Sybase, Inc.

"It is an honor to receive this award for The Dialog Corporation," added Rick King, Chief Technology Officer for Dialog. "Since the Dialog project started, we've been working with a specialized database system for 'text' information used by 100,000 searchers around the world."

"The achievements of Dialog and our other Database Scalability Program winners demonstrate once again that EMC is successfully solving our customers' information technology infrastructure challenges, particularly in the critical area of scalability," said John Gubernat, EMC's Manager of Enterprise Business Applications Group, Industry and Applications Marketing. "This grand prize is all the more meaningful coming from a respected and neutral industry player like Winter Corporation."

EMC Corporation, based in Hopkinton, Mass., is the world leader in information storage. Centralizing and managing information with an EMC e-Infostructure helps businesses harness the full power -- and value -- of their enterprise business applications. EMC solutions help integrate and manage business-critical databases, OLTP applications, data warehouses, as well as ERP and CRM applications from anywhere in the organization. Users have one consistent view of the enterprise -- from back- to front-office applications -- enabling them to access all the information seamlessly, deliver it anywhere, back it up on the fly, keep it highly available, and ensure its protection and integrity.

The Dialog Corporation's Internet and intranet-based products offer immediate access to over nine terabytes, or more than six billion pages, of information. Dialog has over 20,000 customers in 120 countries and can be reached at 1-800-3DIALOG or on the World Wide Web at www.dialog.com.

Winter Corporation, which administers the program, specializes in the design, architecture, implementation and management of large-scale databases. The company provides research, consulting, and education services that help users and vendors define their database solutions, architect their implementations, and manage their scalability issues. The company focuses on database technology near, at, and beyond the frontier of scalability.

In announcing the leading entrants, Richard Winter, president of Winter Corporation, noted that every year, business success depends on managing larger data volumes, users populations, and database workloads. "By using the architectures, products, and practices best suited to their needs," he said, "Database Scalability Program winners are leading us into a new era of scalable business solutions. Our program applauds both the users and the vendors responsible for these ground-breaking implementations."

Looking ahead to the 2001 program, Winter added:

"We'll investigate Web-based services such as application service providers, and offer a way to measure the return on investment of these projects. As businesses seek to turn knowledge of customers' Web behavior into competitive advantage," he continued, "we'll explore CRM (customer relationship management) and e-CRM more thoroughly." Data collection for the 2001 program is scheduled to begin in the fall.

Winter Corporation will announce research findings from the program at a web conference on March 27th, 1 PM, EST. To register for the conference, visit Winter Corporation's web site at www.wintercorp.com. For further information, contact Winter Corporation by e-mail at info@wintercorp.com or by calling (617) 695-1800.