Attachmate Reflection For IBM 2007 Provides 5X Productivity Gains Over Competitive Products.Tolly Group Study Concludes that Reflection 2007 Provides Richer Productivity Features, Better Vista Integration than IBM's Personal Communications 5.9.1 and NetManage's RUMBA 7.5.0 SEATTLE Seattle (sēăt`əl), city (1990 pop. 516,259), seat of King co., W Wash., built on seven hills, between Elliott Bay of Puget Sound and Lake Washington; inc. 1869. -- Attachmate Attachmate is a major privately owned software company created by the acquisition of NetIQ by AttachmateWRQ in 2006. Attachmate focuses on host connectivity, systems and security management, and PC lifecycle management software. Corporation today announced that its Reflection([R]) for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ([R]) 2007 solution dramatically outperformed competitors' terminal emulation Using software in a desktop machine to make it perform like a hardware terminal. The emulated terminal is typically in the VT100-500 family, designed originally by Digital Equipment. offerings in third-party tests conducted by The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization. After a rigorous testing process, which evaluated Attachmate([R]) Reflection for IBM 2007 against IBM's Personal Communication 5.9.1 (PCOM) and NetManage RUMBA 7.5.0, The Tolly Group determined that Reflection for IBM 2007 delivers superior security, user productivity and Windows Vista-readiness compared to IBM PCOM and NetManage RUMBA. In a separate announcement made today, Attachmate announced the general availability of Reflection for IBM 2007. To view this announcement, visit www.attachmate.com/en-US/Press/PressReleases/oct-17-2007.htm. "In addition to richer, faster productivity features, Attachmate's Reflection for IBM 2007 delivers a greater level of Vista-readiness compared to IBM PCOM 5.9.1 and NetManage RUMBA 7.5.0," said Kevin KEVIN Keepers of the Eternal Vigilance of the Islamic Nation (fictional, from White Teeth by Zadie Smith) Tolly, president, chief executive officer and founder of The Tolly Group. "With its superior support for and integration with Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. Vista and Office 2007, Reflection for IBM 2007 is well-suited for customers looking to leverage their infrastructure investment as they transition to new technologies, like Vista." The Tolly Group's independent test results indicate that Reflection for IBM 2007 provides user productivity up to 5X faster than IBM PCOM and NetManage RUMBA, thanks to a broad user productivity feature set that offers "richer capabilities" than the other offerings, including support for Auto Complete A feature in Web browsers and other software that lets you fill in the blanks faster when entering the same names and addresses you routinely use. Auto complete saves your text entries, and compares them with new entries. , Auto Expand, Spell Check, Screen History, Scratch Pad scratch pad n. 1. A pad of paper for preliminary or hasty writing, notes, or sketches. 2. also scratch·pad Computer Science An internal register used for temporary storage of preliminary data or notes. and Recent Typing. Test results also demonstrated that Reflection for IBM 2007 increases user efficiency, as well as security, through its higher level of integration with Windows Vista The current version of Windows for the desktop. It was released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers. Vista adds numerous features, including improved security and advanced multimedia capabilities. and the Microsoft 2007 Office system, and superior support for Microsoft Windows Vista features such as User Account Control. "Attachmate is committed to developing products that positively impact our customers' business goals of maximizing resource effectiveness and reducing costs," said Eric Varness, vice president of marketing at Attachmate. "The conclusions of The Tolly Group report confirm that, with Reflection for IBM 2007, Attachmate has successfully developed a terminal emulation solution that provides superior user productivity gains." To download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. the complete report from The Tolly Group, please visit www.tolly.com/DocDetail.aspx?DocNumber=207234. About Reflection Reflection for IBM 2007 is part of the Attachmate terminal emulation and secure host access product family, which provides secure connections to any host from any desktop, inside or outside the firewall. With Reflection's robust web- and Windows-based products, customers can meet their host access needs while minimizing costs, maximizing IT flexibility and safeguarding critical business data. Attachmate Reflection works collaboratively or as a stand-alone tool along with the company's host access, security and management products, enabling companies to extend the use of existing IT investments while adopting valuable new technologies to improve their business. For over 25 years, Attachmate has developed industry-leading products that are installed on over 16 million systems worldwide. Attachmate's entire range of solutions are backed by an award-winning team of highly trained and tenured ten·ured adj. Having tenure: tenured civil servants; tenured faculty. Adj. 1. tenured service professionals who possess, on average, more than nine years of experience supporting Attachmate products. Organizations are switching to Attachmate and are realizing management, productivity and cost benefits in the process. Reflection for IBM 2007 is now available. For additional information on how to evaluate and purchase, visit www.attachmate.com/en-US/Evals/ribm/eval-form.htm. About The Tolly Group The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , FL, offers a full range of services designed to furnish fur·nish tr.v. fur·nished, fur·nish·ing, fur·nish·es 1. To equip with what is needed, especially to provide furniture for. 2. both the vendor and end-user communities with authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit its Web site at www.tolly.com, or call (561) 391-5610. About Attachmate Attachmate, owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, enables IT organizations to extend mission critical services and assure they are managed, secure and compliant. Attachmate's leading solutions include host connectivity, systems and security management, and PC lifecycle management. Our goal is to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems IT organizations to deliver trusted applications, manage service levels, and ensure compliance by leveraging knowledge, automation and secured connectivity. For more information, visit www.attachmate.com. Copyright (c) 2007 Attachmate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Attachmate, the Attachmate logo and Reflection are registered trademarks of Attachmate Corporation, in the USA and other countries. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the USA and other countries. Microsoft and Windows Vista are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, in the USA and other countries. NetManage and RUMBA are registered trademarks of NetManage, Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other trademarks, trade names, or company names referenced herein are used for identification only and are the property of their respective owners. |
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