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Spring 2000
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General Automation, Inc. a leading provider of enterprise-wide data migration tools and database business solutions for the $3 billion MultiValue market, has announced its plans to change its corporate name.
The company will operate under the dba GA eXpress(tm) (pronounced G-A-E-express) until shareholders formally approve the name change, which will be sought and announced during the first calendar quarter of 2000.
GA's wholly owned subsidiary, Liberty Integration Software, is also changing its name to GA eXpress as the two companies fuse into one corporate entity combining all of General Automation's MultiValue business solutions with the products from Liberty. This will provide customers with robust, powerful MultiValue database systems and ePath migration tools, enabling customers to use their MultiValue investment for e-Commerce.
"GA eXpress is more than just a name change, it reflects a major paradigm shift for the company," explained Jane Christie, president and chief executive officer. "GA eXpress boldly communicates our vision to e-Partner with our customers to leverage the Web, help our customers derive more value from their MultiValue data and achieve a competitive advantage by becoming e-Business ready."
MultiValue is a hierarchical database management system that runs on a wide variety of hardware and operating system platforms. Known for reliability and power, MultiValue databases are used by businesses that require a robust database solution without the support staff needed for larger database applications.
"It's a little known fact that a good portion of the world's businesses use MultiValue database products. These products have long been the workhorses of many markets, but have limitations when it comes to sharing data with some mainstream software programs," Christie continues.
"Our new ePath strategy has been devised to help solve a growing crisis for MultiValue users by enabling them to perform e-Commerce in the new, Internet-driven economy."
Slated for announcement later this quarter, GA eXpress' next-generation solutions are designed to not only enhance the company's existing database offerings, but to provide a data migration path that allows MultiValue-based systems to share critical data with other current platforms, applications and e-Business environments. Under its Universal Data Access Products umbrella, the company plans a calendar Q1 2000 product rollout to include an expanded tool set supporting ODBC, JDBC and OLE-DB technology.
Further supporting the ePath, the company plans to unveil a set of new XML developer tools for building e-Commerce transaction systems that enable secure, fast interchange of data with trading partners over the Web. Like all GA eXpress middleware solutions, the Universal Data Access Products suite will be based on open standards and supports a variety of MultiValue implementations, including D3, UniVerse and UniData as well as mv.BASE and mv.ENTERPRISE from GA eXpress.
"Because our markets are expanding and our customers are growing, GA eXpress must be at the leading edge of innovation," Christie said.
"With our name change, we've made the commitment to a new strategy: to provide e-Business data anywhere anytime. It's a strategy driven by new technology, through customer influence and the growing need for an open, e-Business path for MultiValue users. This is not business as usual. GA eXpress is not General Automation."
General Automation, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, Calif., is dedicated to enabling MultiValue-based enterprises to transform themselves into e-Businesses. With a full product line of software, hardware and middleware solutions for data conversion, transfer and communication solutions that allow businesses to continue to derive value and profit from their MultiValue investment in order to compete in today's Internet-driven economy.
GA eXpress LtdLast Updated: 01 May 2000