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At the top of Sybase's 1997 agenda is a middleware architecture featuring transaction and application servers that will enable multithreaded applications to run over the Internet, with the server delivering data to a Web server. Code-named Jaguar, the middleware will support the Distributed Component Object Model and CORBA distributed object standards. On the database side, parallel database enhancements planned for an early-1997 release of SQL Server, code-named Gryphon, include support for parallel queries, loads, and unloads. SQL Server 11.0, the current release, is limited to some internal symmetric multiprocessing optimizations, but users in the new relational database management system will be able to assign decision-support and transactional tasks to different processors.