Database Excelleration Systems Receives Notice of Allowance of Patent Claims From U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
 
Santa Clara, Calif., June 7, 1995 -- Database Excelleration Systems, Inc. (DES), a leading provider of relational database intelligent storage subsystems and professional services for very high transaction and query-intensive client/server-based database applications, announced today that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for Patent claims directed to the Company's solid state disk subsystem.

The patent is expected to issue in the August/September 1996 timeframe.  The law firm representing DES in this matter is San Jose-based Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin & Friel.  This patent will augment DES' existing portfolio of patents directed to solid state devices.

DES products combine solid state memory and advanced DES Direct Addressing ^TM firmware to greatly accelerate database application performance.  The Company also provides professional diagnostic and evaluation services to assist users in optimizing UNIX and NT-based applications that are experiencing resource contention on RDBMS client/server systems.

The DES Database Excellerator ^TM and Log Excellerator ^TM products are compatible with all major UNIX and NT RDBMSs  including Sybase, Oracle and Informix, as well as most proprietary database systems.  They run on all major UNIX and NT hardware platforms, including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Digital, Stratus and Data General.  DES provides products and services to a wide range of financial services companies, manufacturers and telecommunications service providers, including TCI, Merrill Lynch, Dow Jones Telerate, Exxon, Chevron,  MCI and US West.