Selected Technology Partnerships Fred Meyer, Vice President Product Management

TIBCO Partners 2 Informix n Sponsored development of TIBCO Datablade 4 Publish/Subscribe direct from Database n Polling and Subscription daemons provide interface to IUS n Joint marketing between TIBCO and Informix

TIBCO Partners 3 Oracle n Sponsored and codeveloped ORVCM 4 Uses Oracle DB rather than file system log (Bstore) 4 Allows users to log and audit messages, even after deletion n Sponsored and codeveloped AQ (Advanced Queueing) bridge 4 Multicast version of AQ 4 Interoperation between AQ and RV, RVCM

TIBCO Partners 4 Oracle Announcement n Oracle Licenses TIBCO Technology to Enable “Push” for Network Computing 4 Oracle enables “Live” publishing n Developers can build “event-driven” applications for dynamic information throughout the enterprise n Users can receive timely information of interest, automatically, eliminating need to poll databases

TIBCO Partners 5 Database Database Database Event-Driven e.g., Portfolio Value, Risk Management “Live” Database Pub/Sub Subscriber A Publisher (Server A) Publisher (Server B) Subscriber B Publish/Subscribe Database Reply Server Request Client Evolution: Database Publish/Subscribe Application Event-Driven e.g., Stock Trades Publish/Subscribe Database Client/Server Publish/Subscribe Subscriber C Subscriber B Subscriber A Publisher (Server)

TIBCO Partners 6 Sybase n Integrating Rendezvous via Replication Server to create ‘Sybase ActiveDatabase’ 4 Phase 0 - Available now 4 Phases 1-3 provide more functionality during 1999 n Reselling TIB/EventConsole and TIB/ContentBroker for proactive delivery of Business Events to Sybase users

TIBCO Partners 7 ActiveDatabase Distributed Systems E vent Console ERP Systems Legacy Apps TIB The Event-Driven Enterprise PDA’s, Embedded DB’s M essage Broker

TIBCO Partners 8 3COM n First corporate TIB/ActiveEnterprise Licensee n Plans to put TIBCO Subject Address Filtration in NIC’s n Working with TIBCO to extend Rendezvous to Palm Pilot n First deployment of EventConsole/ContentBroker to customers

TIBCO Partners 9 Bay Networks/Nortel n Emerging relationship n Interested in multicast-enabled handheld devices n Focused on voice, streaming media over IP

TIBCO Partners 10 Cisco n Codeveloping Reliable Multicast with TIBCO 4 PGM to be embedded in IOS n New version of TIB/Rendezvous will be wire compatible with PGM n Working with TIBCO to develop Active Directory Event Services for Solaris and HP/UX n Will Embed Rendevous-based Event Services in IOS

TIBCO Partners 11 SNS: What, Why? n WHAT: TIBCO’s answer to DNS: The Subject Naming Service n Why: Content providers require fine- grained discovery, connection and directory services 4 Must be content-based 4 Must support reliable multicast

TIBCO Partners 12 SNS: How it Works n Users express interest in a topic n SNS uses its search facilities to map that general interest into subjects and multicast groups n User is automatically subscribed to those groups n Information is combined and presented to the user in the desired format

TIBCO Partners 13 SNS TIB Sports.Red_Sox.Score News.Giants.Trade Sports.Dodgers.Highlight Travel.Cubs.Spring_Training Weather.Dodgers.Game New.Dodgers.Statistics How about those Dodgers? SNS “S.Dodgers” Subscribe “*.Dodgers.>” Subscribe “*.*.Dodgers.*” News.Dodgers.Statistics Weather.Dodgers.Game Sports.Dodgers.Highlight Purchase.Sports.Dodgers.Stuff DODGERS

TIBCO Partners 14 SNS: Directory Service for AE Products Research TX’s Customers Financials (e.g. SAP, Oracle) Applications , Notes App. Viewers (e.g Browsers, Java) SNSTransactionSystemsAccounts MarketData Administration & ApplicationManagement TIB/ActiveEnterprise

TIBCO Partners 15 SNS: Summary n Interprets user queries n Discovers appropriate subjects n Subscribes the user to these subjects n Presents content in desired format via multiple GUI’s