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Information Builders, Inc. (IBI) next month will announce several partnerships and products designed to transform its flagship middleware offering into a system for dynamically linking heterogeneous enterprise applications.
The company will strike deals with software makers to embed messaging and Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) capabilities in its Enterprise Data Access (EDA)/SQL middleware. IBI also plans to license technology to enhance EDA/SQL's management capabilities, said sources familiar with the plan.
EDA/SQL is SQL-based middleware for connecting front-end applications to dozens of data sources.
The company declined to comment on the announcements, which sources said will be made at the DB/EXPO '95 trade show here on Dec. 5.
Sources said IBI will license technology from...