BMC Software Plans Support of Oracle8 with More Than a Dozen Data and Application Management Products; Support of Latest Oracle Release Signals Company's Continued Commitment to Managing Leading Databases.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sept. 16, 1997-- BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. today released its first set of Oracle8-compliant data and application management products, continuing its path toward compliance for all BMC Software products. The commitment to support the latest version of Oracle's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Oracle8, is vital to meeting customer requirements and maintaining the company's firm position in the market. By the end of 1997, BMC Software will offer more than a dozen products across eight platforms and applications supporting Oracle8. Through the added support, BMC Software continues to strengthen its leadership position in data and application management. "Oracle and BMC Software have a close working relationship, and we consider the Oracle database to be a very strategic area for us. As a participant in Oracle's beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the for Oracle8, BMC Software has been able to ensure that our application and data management solutions quickly support all new versions and updates to Oracle databases and applications," said Betty Otter-Nickerson, vice president of research and development for data management at BMC Software. "We believe that our plan to continue to roll out quality solutions for Oracle and its applications, along with ensuring that these solutions integrate with Oracle's latest releases such as Oracle8, will enable customers to manage more data, achieve faster deployment and have a broader, scalable use of data within their computing environment." More Than a Dozen Oracle8 Products Planned More than a dozen BMC Software products are planned for support of Oracle8, Oracle's next generation database for network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. . Many of these products will be showcased at the Oracle Open World Show on Sept. 22, 1997 and include: -- Four popular PATROL(R) Knowledge Modules (KMs). PATROL KM products provide the expertise to manage a specific application or database. KMs planned for support on Oracle8 include: PATROL KM for Oracle8, one of BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. Software's best selling products in the open systems market; PATROL KM for Oracle Applications enhances application availability and address problems before users are impacted; the PATROL KM for SAP R/3 allows customers to centrally monitor and manage R/3 applications and services; and the PATROL DB-Admin Knowledge Module integrates PATROL application monitoring for BMC Software's schema management products. -- Automated data administration products. BMC Software's data administration products offer an automated method for administering multiple databases in heterogenous (spelling) heterogenous - It's spelled heterogeneous. environments. Products supporting Oracle8 will include: PATROL DB-Alter(tm) for schema administration, PATROL DB-Voyager(tm) provides graphical database object discovery and browsing, and PATROL DB-Change Manager(tm) for schema, change, propagation and data structure synchronization -- High performance database utilities. BMC Software's database utilities provide users with a proactive approach to ensure optimal database performance. Products that support Oracle8 will include PATROL DB-Stats(tm), the industry's only product for analysis and trending of space utilization. Other planned Oracle8 utilities from BMC Software include PATROL DB-Unload(tm) for high speed data unloads, PATROL DB-Integrity(tm) that validates objects and their relationships, and PATROL DB-Reorg(tm) for database reorganization. -- Industry exclusive backup and recovery solutions. Organizations increasingly use specialized applications to enhance database procedures such as backup and recovery. The SQL-BackTrack(tm) for Oracle product automates and helps manage the backup process for Oracle8 and reduces errors through a guided recovery process. Other Oracle8 supported tools for backup and recovery from BMC Software will include PATROL DB Log Master, the industry's only log analysis and transaction-based recovery solution and PATROL Recovery Manager that performs automated, synchronized backups and recoveries across multiple RDBMSs. Continued Oracle Presence with Management Breadth and Depth BMC Software has been meeting customer requirements by providing solutions for Oracle databases and applications since 1994. Today, the solution set has grown to 15 products across eight platforms - 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. , HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Sun, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Solaris X86, ATT ATT ammonia tolerance test. NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers , Sequent Dynix 4 and DEC Alpha See Alpha. (processor) DEC Alpha - A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. . BMC Software solutions also provide the deepest level of Oracle management available today. With Oracle8 support, the PATROL Management Suite continues to provide customers with support of databases ranging from a few gigabytes to tens of terabytes of data. Pricing and Availability BMC Software's data and application management products will be demonstrated at Oracle Open World on Sept 22, 1997. Pricing for the PATROL Application Management Suite of products starts at $6,000, depending on the number of consoles and managed objects. Pricing for individual PATROL KMs starts at $750. The PATROL Data Management products are available individually with starting prices In horse racing, starting prices (SP) are the odds prevailing in the on-course fixed-odds betting market at the time a race begins. The method by which they are set for each runner varies in different countries but is generally by consensus of an appointed panel on the basis of ranging from $285 - $3505. All prices are U.S. list. About BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: BMCS BMCS Bristol Muslim Cultural Society (UK) BMCS Senior Chief Boatswain's Mate (Naval Rating) BMCS Blue Mountains Conservation Society (Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia) ) is a worldwide developer and vendor of more than 160 software solutions that monitor, manage and optimize business-critical applications, data, databases, middleware, systems and networks in distributed enterprise environments. BMC Software is the world's 12th largest independent software vendor and a Forbes 500 company, with annual revenues exceeding $560 million in fiscal 1997. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the with offices, distributors and agents in 50 markets worldwide. For more information on BMC Software call 800/841-2031 or 713/918-8800. -0- BMC Software, the BMC Software logo and all other product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of BMC Software, Inc. in the USA and in other select countries. (R) and (tm) indicate USA registration or USA trademark. Sequent and Sun are registered trademarks of, respectively Sequent Computer Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark and the Oracle product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of Oracle Corp. Other third party logos and product/tradenames mentioned are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. E12NR002 CONTACT: BMC Software Laura Young, 713/918-2036 laura_young@bmc.com or Eastwick Communications Leanne Hartman, 510/654-5621 lhartman@mindspring.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion