Amdahl Software Acquires Global Software Developer.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2000 Acquisition of Ordinox Strengthens EnView(TM) Product Line Amdahl Software today announced that it has acquired Montreal, Quebec-based Ordinox Network Inc., a global developer of network management software. The acquisition significantly strengthens Amdahl Software's capabilities in the QoSI (Enterprise Application Quality of Service at the user Interface) performance software market. Amdahl's EnView(TM), is considered the industry's most complete software performance package on the market due to its ability to enable organizations to measure performance, availability and responsiveness on a combination of legacy, web and client/server platforms. Ordinox, one of the leading providers of network management solutions since the early 1990s, developed a unique series of applications that are consistent with all managed devices. Lucent and Adtran are some of their major customers. In addition to the ongoing development of EnView, Ordinox is working on significant enhancements to STARmanager(TM), Amdahl Software's Business Process Recovery tool set to support multi-vendor, multi-domain applications. Ordinox is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . "Spearheaded by EnView, Amdahl Software is at the forefront of the QoSI performance management marketplace, providing enterprise wide and highly scaleable solutions," said Amdahl Software President Steven F.X. Murphy. "Our customers include some of the most successful, global financial, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , government, and corporate organizations throughout the world. "Those who follow the evolution of the end user performance software business will immediately recognize the strategic fit and synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. offered by this acquisition. It will allow us to integrate network and application metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. into EnView to track and pinpoint root causes for service level problems. This will detect errors and quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business. response-time requirements to ensure 24 x 7 availability of a customer's mission critical applications. "In addition to the strategic time to market benefits, this acquisition strengthens our development bench by tapping into the highly-skilled and motivated mo·ti·vate tr.v. mo·ti·vat·ed, mo·ti·vat·ing, mo·ti·vates To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel. mo Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. technical work force. It increases the scale of our development operation so we can win the competitive-feature war in this fastest growing segment of the e-enterprise performance market. "Decision makers want an experienced performance management solution provider that can supply continuous measurement -- end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. -- to enable them to increase productivity, reduce costs and stay ahead of the competition. Amdahl's Software's depth and breadth of capability places us in a position to deliver the full range of resources that they need. The acquisition of Ordinox significantly strengthens that position." Michel Daigle, Ordinox President stated, "Amdahl Software is the leading Storage and Performance management software provider in the industry. Its proven capabilities are key elements to move our company through the next stage of its growth strategy. "In our evaluation of alternatives to achieve this growth, Amdahl Software's strong orientation and existing knowledge of our business provided an excellent fit. It is a sound opportunity for our clients and employees. We are very excited about the prospects of this combination." Ordinox will operate as a unit of Amdahl Software's Development organization reporting to Nick Tabellion, vice president of the organization. About Amdahl Software Amdahl Software provides leading-edge software solutions to companies that demand e-business performance and application availability across the enterprise. Amdahl Software is the vendor of choice in the areas of data protection, migration, replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. , performance, application availability, disaster recovery, SAN management and business continuance The adjournment or postponement of an action pending in a court to a later date of the same or another session of the court, granted by a court in response to a motion made by a party to a lawsuit. . As a global and independent software provider, Amdahl Software has the support of Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and , a recognized leader in IT innovation and customer support, and the backing of the $50 billion Fujitsu Corporation. For additional information go to: http://www.amdahl.com/software/ Amdahl is a registered trademark and EnView, SUNRISE Sunrise, city (1990 pop. 64,407), Broward co., SE Fla., a residential suburb 8 mi (13 km) W of Fort Lauderdale; inc. 1961 as Sunrise Golf Village. It is a major office and commercial center and the site of Sawgrass Mills, one of the largest malls in the United States. and STARmanager are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. |
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