Amazon.com Signs Systems Management Solutions Deal With OSM, Seattle; OSM's COSMOS Suite Selected Above Powerful Rival Systems Management Solutions for Its Flexibility and Cost Effectiveness.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1998--Open Systems Management Inc. (OSM OSM Oregon Steel Mills, Inc. OSM Openstreetmap (free editable online world map) OSM Office of Surface Mining (US government) OSM Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal ), the Seattle-based systems management specialist has signed a licenses and services agreement with Amazon.com Inc. Amazon.com, the online retailer, Earth's Biggest Bookstore, offers three million books, CDs, and more to customers visiting its web-site at www.amazon.com. The deal is to provide COSMOS, OSM's systems management suite for open systems, in a solution for managing Amazon.com's substantial UNIX server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. farm of powerful Digital Alpha and Sun servers. COSMOS will help Amazon.com to ensure its store offers 24-hour continuity of service and the performance needed to quickly serve the potential customers who browse its virtual bookshelves. Amazon.com's groundbreaking electronic bookstore is one of the leading electronic merchandizing stories, but it also highlights the special importance that good systems management takes on for a totally online company. Amazon.com selected OSM over other market leading solutions because it found that COSMOS had clear advantages in a rapidly growing and dynamic environment. The electronic bookseller says that it chose COSMOS on the basis of toolset flexibility, quality of support, and cost-effectiveness. COSMOS toolset flexibility includes being able to selectively purchase just those modules from the suite that meet the needs of the business, know that they will integrate, and know that additional modules can easily be added later. Each module has been designed to allow for later configuration and customization by the customer to enable COSMOS to be adapted to meet new future needs. The full COSMOS systems management suite is designed for managing UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. environments and consists of ten applications areas, available separately, and sharing a common look and feel. Applications include backup/recovery and event monitoring In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signalling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. , print spooling, batch job scheduling, report management, auditing, access security, console management, resource accounting and chargeback Chargeback The charge a credit card merchant pays to a customer after the customer successfully disputes an item on his or her credit card statement. Notes: Customers dispute charges to their credit card usually when goods or services are not delivered within the , user/group administration, software distribution, and duty scheduling. Editors note: "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" is a Service Mark (SM) of Amazon.com About OSM OSM Inc., based in Seattle, Wa provides the COSMOS suite of systems management applications for UNIX and Windows NT. OSM boasts over twenty thousand licenses for COSMOS, installed in over thirty countries. Its US customers include Northwest Natural Gas, Cap Gemini, SmithKline Beecham and Oracle Corporation. Overseas clients include the British House of Commons Noun 1. British House of Commons - the lower house of the British parliament House of Commons house - an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses" British Parliament - the British legislative body (UK Parliament), Kuwait Petroleum and Volkswagen, Germany. OSM is a privately owned company, with North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters in Seattle. There are also offices in New Jersey and Chicago and European operations are run from London. The company has OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and business partnerships with Sequent Computer Systems, Digital Equipment Corp., Siemens Nixdorf, Sun Microsystems Corp. and others. Since it began trading in 1988, OSM's revenues have grown each year by in excess of 50%. See also www.osmcorp.com
CONTACT: U.S.: OSM Inc., Seattle
Mike Bombacie, 206/583 8373
mike@sleepless.osminc.com
or
Europe: Oast Communications
Derek Harris, +44 1959 568512 (England)
derek@oast.co.uk
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