CRAY RESEARCH AND ILLUSTRA PROVIDE HIGH
PERFORMANCE OBJECT-RELATIONAL' DATABASE
SOLUTION

NEW YORK, June 22, 1994 -- Cray Research Superservers, a
subsidiary of Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE: CYR), and Illustra
Information Technologies, Inc.(TM), formerly Montage
Software, have announced an agreement that combines the
CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) system with the Illustra
Server (TM).  Under terms of the agreement, Illustra now offers
and supports Illustra Server on the CS6400 family of systems. 
The two companies will also participate in joint sales and
marketing efforts.  The announcement was made at the
Securities Industry Association show held here this week.

Illustra Server extends the widely-accepted relational
database model with breakthrough technology that supports
audio, video and images as data types and provides intelligent
storage of time-series and temporal data.  The Illustra Server
can support 16 million tables, each with over one trillion rows,
and features search techniques that speed the time required to
analyze and manage information contained in very large
databases.

For example, Illustra Server's TimeSeries DataBlade module,
which was designed in partnership with leading Wall Street
firms, enables financial services users to analyze and manage
corporate financial reporting, stock prices, bond yields,
derivative securities and remotely sensed data.  Users may
define unique queries to analyze and price financial securities
and investment portfolios based on varying market factors.

"Illustra is the next step in the evolution of database
management systems and its unique capabilities make it ideal
for financial services applications, which require complex data
modeling.  With Illustra running on the CS6400 systems, our
financial services customers have the speed and power to
analyze market conditions to price securities and derivatives
or map historical data," said Jeff Pancottine, director of
marketing for Cray Research Superservers.

"We are pleased to offer the Illustra Server on the CRAY
SUPERSERVER 6400," said Bruce Golden, Illustra vice president
of marketing.  "Together, the hardware and software products
offer optimized performance for fast analysis of very large and
complex data."

The CS6400 is the world's fastest and most expandable
SPARC/Solaris-compliant system.  These systems are
available in configurations from 4 to 64 processors, with up to
16 gigabytes (16 billion bytes) of memory, more than two
terabytes (2 trillion bytes) of online storage and up to 64 I/O
channels.

Illustra Information Technologies, based in Oakland, California,
is the leading supplier of object-relational database
management systems and tools for business, scientific and
technical solutions.  The company was founded in 1992.

Cray Research provides the leading supercomputing tools and
service to help solve customers' most challenging problems. 
Data warehousing, decision support, transaction processing and
multimedia applications which challenge current technologies
are the targets for Cray Research's new line of highly scalable
CS6400 symmetric multiprocessing systems.