Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:20:39 -0500
From: Helena Stolka <helena.stolka@news.netbeans.com>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: NetBeans Bundles Cloudscape with Leading Programming Environment

For Immediate Release:  Technology Writers & Business Editors

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Helena Stolka
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NetBeans, Inc.
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NetBeans Bundles Cloudscape with Leading Programming Environment

Oakland, CA and Prague, Czech Republic, September 21, 1998-NetBeans, Inc. and 
Cloudscape(TM) Inc. announced today that NetBeans, Inc. will bundle Cloudscape's 
embeddable Java-based object relational database with upcoming releases of the 
NetBeans IDE. Founded on  the principle of Java innovation, NetBeans is the 
first company to offer an all-Java IDE based on Swing/JFC. Cloudscape offers the 
industry's first embeddable Java database, designed to be invisibly embedded 
within applications as a local data manager.

The Cloudscape database will be bundled with NetBeans Developer 2.0, allowing 
users of NetBeans Developer 2.0 to create Java applications that integrate a 
fully functional, yet lightweight object-relational database manager. The 
integrated product is expected to be available in November 1998. NetBeans 
Developer 2.0, written entirely in the Java(TM) language and based on Sun's Java 
Foundation Classes framework, is a full-featured, object oriented, visual 
programming environment that allows flexible development on any platform that 
supports JDK 1.1.x, including Win95/98/NT, Apple Mac, Linux, OS/2, Solaris, 
HP-UX, Irix and others. It combines the cross-platform compatibility of Java 
with the ease-of-use of a visual RAD programming environment, in a package that 
offers serious software developers a full set of advanced tools in an intuitive 
format. Since the release of NetBeans Developer 2.0 - Beta 1 in late June, over 
18,000 new registered users have downloaded the IDE. Cloudscape ships a 100% 
Pure Java object-relational DBMS that provides SQL access to complex data and 
logic and features a small footprint. It can be extended with Java class 
libraries, and can manage data of any type and logic of any complexity.

"The combination of NetBeans and Cloudscape is a marriage of two 'best of breed' 
technologies," said Roman Stanek, founder and CEO of NetBeans, Inc. "Our 
bundling redefines the concept of 'Integrated Development Environment,' and 
thanks to our Java foundations, the joining will be seamless. With one visionary 
technology, Java, we've brought together two innovative tools."

"We're pleased to work with NetBeans to provide portable Java-based database 
management to users of the NetBeans development environment " said Malcolm 
Colton, vice president of marketing, Cloudscape Inc. "Together, the two products 
free developers from the constraints of traditional application development, 
allowing them to deploy database enabled applications that support even 
disconnected clients."

NETBEANS IDE
NetBeans IDE will ship in two versions - Developer and Enterprise. NetBeans 
Developer was created for the single developer working on a single platform. 
NetBeans Enterprise was designed as a multi-user, multi-platform product. Users 
can fully exploit the object-oriented nature of the IDE, design distributed 
applications based on RMI/CORBA, share virtual file systems, debug remotely, and 
access source control systems. 

NetBeans Developer 2.0 is scheduled for release early in Q4,1998, and like the 
beta version, will be available for download from the NetBeans Website at 
http://www.netbeans.com. The retail price will be $149, and the IDE will be free 
for non-commercial and educational use. Pricing and availability of NetBeans 
Enterprise will be announced in late September, 1998.

CLOUDSCAPE DATABASE
Cloudscape ships the only 100% Pure Java(TM) SQL database manager designed
to be invisibly embedded within applications as a local data manager. It is a 
low-overhead, extensible object relational database that can be embedded in 
applications that are deployed over the Internet or on media to the mobile 
workforce, customers, and partners. It also has applicability to server-side 
Java applications, where it provides a transactional local data store. The 
Cloudscape software is currently in use at more than 200 sites worldwide.

With an extremely small footprint, Cloudscape is agile enough for deployment 
over the network. It is designed to meet the needs of forward-looking companies 
who see the intranet and extranet as the cost-effective mechanism for delivering 
core business applications and products. Remote and embedded applications are 
managed from a central point, dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership 
of a distributed system.

ABOUT NETBEANS, INC.
NetBeans, Inc. is an emerging growth company based in Prague, Czech Republic 
that has quickly risen to the forefront of Java technology. NetBeans was founded 
in July, 1997, by a team of talented Java technology developers led by Roman 
Stanek, formerly the Regional Director of Central and Eastern Europe for Sybase. 
An expert in IT and high technology in emerging markets, Mr. Stanek is a regular 
speaker at industry conferences and is frequently quoted by the computer and 
business press.

NetBeans is a privately held company whose investors include Esther Dyson, CEO 
of EDventure Holdings. Ms. Dyson is a leading private global technology investor 
and is widely known in the computer industry as an analyst on emerging 
information technologies worldwide, an author, a speaker, and an advisor (see 
http://www.edventure.com/bios/esther.html)

For more information about NetBeans, please visit the company's web site, 
http://www.netbeans.com, write to info@netbeans.com, or call 011 4202 8300 7322.

ABOUT CLOUDSCAPE, INC.
Cloudscape, Inc. is pioneering Java-based database management solutions to 
address the evolving requirements of network-centric business computing. 
Cloudscape's products are the first to allow companies to create smart 
distributed applications for network centric computing that serve the needs of 
the remote and often disconnected workforce. Cloudscape, founded in 1996 by a 
team of experts from Informix, Illustra, Oracle, and Sybase, currently employs a 
staff of 45 in its Oakland, CA headquarters and is funded through Brentwood 
Venture Capital, Accel Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, St. Paul Venture 
Capital, and RB Webber, and private investors Stewart Schuster, Roger Sippl, and 
Tom Haggin. For more information please visit the Cloudscape web site: 
http://www.cloudscape.com, email info@cloudscape.com or call 1-888-59-JAVA1.

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