Amdahl Corporation brings enterprise applications to the desktop; Enterprise Information Solutions Group will use Huron ObjectStar 3.0 to deliver integrated mainframe-to-desktop applications.

Corporation has significantly strengthened its applications development offerings by making available to the marketplace Huron ObjectStar 3.0, Antares Alliance Group's newly announced applications development software environment. With this new software, Amdahl is the first enterprise solutions vendor to offer true, integrated, mainframe-to-desktop client/server capability with the robustness required for mission-critical enterprise applications. Using ObjectStar 3.0, organizations can achieve the business benefits of client/server faster, with less risk, and without having to discard investments in mainframe assets, or in applications built with low-end tools.

Amdahl's Enterprise Information Solutions (EIS) division, a marketplace leader in ObjectStar solutions since 1991, combines traditional Amdahl large-systems expertise with the powerful ObjectStar environment to help customers deliver new and updated applications to achieve business goals. The latest ObjectStar release enables developers to easily add new functionality and integrate a Windows environment with existing applications; the ObjectStar applications can then be distributed across multiple platforms. To fully support enterprise client/server, ObjectStar extends mission-critical integrity, security and performance -- attributes normally reserved for mainframe applications -- across mainframe, midrange and desktop platforms.

"The combination of large systems rapid applications development and client/server deployment is very powerful, and will help our customers create and maintain a competitive edge," said Steve Coggins, vice president and general manager of EIS Worldwide Operations. "Consequently, we expect ObjectStar 3.0 to significantly enhance our growing applications development business. Amdahl is committed to this marketplace and we intend to remain a major player for a long time."

ObjectStar is based on a three-tiered client/server approach, which is rapidly becoming the architecture of choice for enterprise computing. This architecture maximizes flexibility in application topology, while allowing for the data access and transaction integrity critical to enterprise-wide applications.

ObjectStar 3.0 also features a new Open Transaction Server that provides connectivity to applications developed with desktop tools. Until now, deployment of popular low-end desktop applications development tools has stopped at the server. Therefore, anyone building a flexible, three-tiered client/server environment using mainframe resources has had to link a multitude of different technologies, then figure how to make them all work together. ObjectStar, on the other hand, provides all the important middleware needed to implement three-tier computing for high-transaction volumes and for applications supporting thousands of users. Furthermore, the ObjectStar architecture enables developers to re-configure the tiers easily and dynamically, resulting in a nimbleness much sought after in today's business climate.

Huron ObjectStar is a product of the Antares Alliance Group, a joint venture which is 80 percent owned by Amdahl and 20 percent by Electronic Data Systems. The software operates across the whole enterprise, running under Windows 3.1, Windows NT, UNIX (AIX/6000, Sun/Solaris, HP/UX) and MVS/ESA environments.

Amdahl Corp. (AMEX:AMH) is a worldwide supplier of large scale System/390 processors, UNIX system software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use across all types of computing environments. -0-

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