Menlo Park, Calif., August 11, 1992--Gupta Technologies and Hewlett Packard
Company have entered into a strategy alliance to develop and market an
ODBC interface to HP ALLBASE/SQL and TurboIMAGE databases. With this
interface, HP users will be able to use any ODBC-compliant Windows
application on their PCs to transparently access HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP
TurboIMAGE data on HP 3000 and HP 9000 business computers.

The announcement furthers HP's strategy to provide PC client-server
solutions for its customers. It swiftly follows last week's announcement
that Gupta will provide an ODBC application program interface (API) for
its own SQLBase server.

"This announcement is consistent with our strategy of making HP business
systems and servers the cornerstone of client-server computing for our
customers," said Richard W. Sevcik, general manager of HP's Systems and
Servers Group. "Our customers gain the ability to access and process data
in their existing application systems from the popular Windows environment
on PCs. They also gain the ability to build a new generation of
client-server applications while preserving their investments in HP
hardware and software."

"Enterprise-wide client-server computing is the new paradigm of the 1990s
as organizations everywhere seek to downsize applications to networks that
incorporate PCs," said Umang Gupta, President and CEO of Gupta
Technologies. "We are extremely pleased to have successfully partnered
with Hewlett-Packard to deliver this crucial capability to HP customers."

ODBC For HP ALLBASE/SQL And HP TurboIMAGE

Under the agreement, HP and Gupta will jointly develop and market Microsoft
Windows' ODBC driver for HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP TurboIMAGE databases. This
will allow any vendor's ODBC-compliant front-end tools and their
applications to work with these two HP databases. The ODBC driver for HP
is expected to become available in the Fall of 1993.

Gupta SQLWindows applications currently access HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP
TurboIMAGE data via the HP ALLBASE/SQL PC API, a connectivity product
developed by the two companies and that HP currently markets. The ODBC
interface will give Gupta customers another option for making the
connection.

Gupta recently announced its support for ODBC, Microsoft's Open Database
Connectivity application programming interface (API). ODBC is based on the
call-level API recommended by the SQL Access Group, an industry standards
consortium of which both Gupta and HP are members. Gupta will enhance its
SQLWindows and Quest products to support ODBC in 1993. Gupta will also
ship an ODBC client driver for Windows as a standard feature of all
versions of its SQLBase Server (MS-DOS, OS/2, NLM and Unix) in the first
half of 1993.

Gupta's SQLWindows is the leading software for developing graphical
database applications and is installed on tens of thousands of Windows
PCs.

HP ALLBASE/SQL and HP TurboIMAGE are installed on more than 50,000
computers worldwide. HP recently announced a greatly enhanced version of
ALLBASE/SQL specifically designed for supporting business-critical
applications on client-server and distributed computing systems. HP
ALLBASE/SQL provides mainframe class performance and functionality, yet
costs one-tenth the price of traditional mainframe RDBMS. HP ALLBASE/SQL
runs on the wide range of HP hardware platforms, including the HP 3000 and
HP 9000 workstations and business servers.

HP TurboIMAGE supports high-performance on-line transaction processing
applications on HP 3000 computers.

About Gupta Technologies

Gupta Technologies, Inc., founded in 1984, is the leading vendor of
client-server database software for PC networks.

Gupta's SQLBase Server (NLM) recently established a new performance
standard for PC client-server databases. SQLWindows has been instrumental
in the growth of applications developed for client-server networks.
Gupta's Quest is a data access, query and reporting tool for end-users,
and SQLNetwork is a family of software products (SQLGateway, SQLHost and
SQLRouter) for connecting Gupta tools and servers to other server data
sources including DB2, ORACLE, Informix, AS/400 Database, HP ALLBASE/SQL,
HP TurboIMAGE, and others.

About Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Company is an international manufacturer of measurement and
computation products and systems recognized for excellence in quality and
support. The company's products and services are used in industry,
business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately
100 countries. HP has 90,000 employees and had total revenue of $14.5
billion in its 1991 fiscal year.


Gupta Technologies, Inc.  1060 Marsh Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Tel: 415 321 9500    FAX: 415 321 5471

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