Silicon Graphics and Sybase bring Personalized Marketing to the Internet

Silicon Graphics has announced a strategic initiative with Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) to deliver solutions to the World Wide Web that will combine Sybase's high-performance information management systems with Silicon Graphics' WebFORCE CHALLENGE servers. The resulting WebFORCE systems will add tremendous impact to Web sites, including the ability to instantly create home pages customized to match the preferences and interests of individual Web surfers.

The SYBASE® SQL Server 10 relational database management system (RDBMS) will be integrated with Silicon Graphics' WebFORCE CHALLENGE servers, enabling businesses and consumers to browse information on the Web and perform key information management functions such as transaction processing and customer profile tracking.

"Thanks to our relationship with Sybase, we can now provide vast new capabilities that allow Web site providers to market to individuals rather than to demographics," said Dr. Ross Bott, vice president and general manager of the Advanced Data Division at Silicon Graphics.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Bundles for WebFORCE Create Most Robust Web Authoring Platform

Also, Silicon Graphics and Adobe Systems announced a software bundle that adds Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator software to Silicon Graphics' WebFORCE Indy and Indigo2 authoring workstations. With the addition of Adobe software to the WebFORCE product offering, the company has created a tool suite that empowers Web designers to maximize their content options.

With the newly bundled Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop products, Silicon Graphics customers who purchase WebFORCE Indy and Indigo2 authoring systems receive additional software to complement the existing suite of digital media tools which come standard with all WebFORCE products.

"Combining Adobe tools with Silicon Graphics' WebFORCE authoring solutions is as revolutionary to on-line publishing in the '90s as the Macintosh was to desktop publishing in the '80s," said Furlong.

The bundled Adobe software is retroactive for all WebFORCE workstations that have been purchased previously and will be available on new systems within the next 30 days. WebFORCE workstations have entry level configuration of 8-bit, 133Mhz R4600 WebFORCE Indy system with 1GB system disk, 32Mb of memory and a 17-inch high-resolution color monitor.

Silicon Graphics and the World Wide Web

With more than 10 million browsers and more than 30,000 servers, the Web is the most widely recognized client/server application and interface on the Internet. Earlier this year, Silicon Graphics began enhancing the capabilities of the Web by unveiling WebFORCE, the first product line for creating and serving media-rich content for the World Wide Web. This new line of Silicon Graphics workstations combines high-bandwith visual computing systems with intuitive authoring tools and powerful server software based on the Silicon Graphics Indy and Indigo2 desktop and CHALLENGE server systems.

The WebFORCE Indy, coupled with Silicon Graphics' WebMagic Author content-authoring software, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator imaging and design applications, and Netsite Communications Server software, can be used to both author and serve compelling content for the Web. The WebFORCE Indigo2, is bundled with all content-authoring applications necessary to serve as a high-end, dedicated authoring platform. The WebFORCE CHALLENGE server systems, high-performance, dedicated server for Web content are combined with the Netsite Communications Server software for high performance, flexible configurability, scalability and ease of use.

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