Beyond Software announces distribution agreement with Aonix for enterprise application transformation solutions.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 1997--Beyond Software Inc., the leader for providing enterprise application transformation solutions, today announced at the DB/Expo and Conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden a distribution agreement with Aonix, a $75 million powerhouse A fourth-generation language from Cognos that was introduced in the late 1970s for midrange computers. It supports both character-oriented, terminal-based applications as well as Windows clients. Applications developed under PowerHouse can be imported into Cognos' Axiant client/server environment. in the corporate and technical object-oriented tool market. This agreement enables Aonix to re-market Beyond Software's EnterpriseWeb/MVS and EnterpriseWeb/VM products to customers in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. In addition, Aonix is integrating Beyond Software's EnterpriseWeb products with its own 4GL technology to create the industry's first mainframe-based Web server, RP/Web, which allows companies to extend their investment in legacy systems without costly reengineering by rapidly building Web-enabled legacy applications incorporating 4GL facilities. "This agreement reflects a significant endorsement of our products and services by a key player in the enterprise application transformation market," said Brian Reaves, Beyond Software's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "It further validates our products as being the tools which enable companies and large corporations to make intelligent, cost-effective use of the S/390 platform running existing and planned data intensive applications. The Aonix partnership greatly enhances our ability to provide superior services to our customers world-wide." "We chose Beyond Software's EnterpriseWeb products because they are technically-superior, easy-to-use, cost effective solutions to turn mainframes into powerful Web servers for Internet and corporate intranet applications," said Chris Kenber, president and CEO of Aonix. "Beyond Software's products also gave us the competitive edge we needed to develop what we believe is a significant technology breakthrough with RP/Web, a mainframe resident Web server that provides 4GL access to data which also resides on the mainframe." EnterpriseWeb/MVS is a World Wide Web server for the MVS/ESA See MVS. MVS/ESA - Multiple Virtual Storage and OS/390 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Customers can now easily turn their OS/390 system into a powerful Web server for intranet applications. Because EnterpriseWeb/MVS runs in native mode under MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , it is easy to install, and customers can quickly Web-enable their legacy applications. EnterpriseWeb/VM is a World Wide Web server for VM operating systems. Customers can now easily turn their VM system into a powerful Web server for intranet applications. Because EnterpriseWeb/VM runs in native mode under VM, it is easy to install, and customers can quickly Web-enable their legacy applications. Aonix's RP/Web software uses Beyond Software's EnterpriseWeb products, and offers important benefits for both mainframe and Internet environments. In mainframe environments, it extends host applications to a wide range of users at a very low cost by leveraging all major desktop platforms -- including PCs, Macintoshes and 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). workstations -- as "thin clients" which never need to be reconfigured. RP/Web also significantly reduces mainframe processing overhead by eliminating the need to use 3270-type terminals. EnterpriseWeb/MVS, EnterpriseWeb/VM and RP/Web for VM-based mainframes are now available through Aonix's direct sales representatives. An MVS version of RP/Web will be available in the third quarter of 1997. Pricing for all packages depends upon the host configuration. About Aonix Aonix, with headquarters in San Francisco, is a $75 million company that offers a complete set of scaleable, full-life cycle products and services for data modeling, application development and deployment of successful data warehouses. The firm was formed in November, 1996, with the merging of two market leaders: Interactive Development Environments Inc. (IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. ), a veteran player in the modeling, analysis and design tools market, and Thomson Software Products Thomson Software Products (TSP) was a software development corporation based in Norwalk, Connecticut with engineering and support facilities in Norwalk and San Diego, California. Established in July 1995, the corporation became half of Aonix in 1996. , a diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s tools company whose products and extensive service portfolio span the implementation and deployment phases of high-end software development. Aonix currently has over 80 salespeople sales·peo·ple pl.n. Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory. and 80 consultants worldwide, serving Thomson's 20,000 installations and half a million users, and IDE's 18,000 users worldwide. The merger positions Aonix to offer a new end-to-end object-oriented development platform for even greater penetration into both the commercial and technical markets, and to increase its presence in the data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse tools market. Aonix can be found on the Internet at http://www.aonix.com . About Beyond Software Beyond Software Inc. is the leader in providing enterprise application transformation solutions. Combining both legacy systems and Internet expertise, Beyond Software delivers technically-superior, easy-to-use, cost-effective solutions. The privately-held company, first to develop a commercial web server for the System 390 platform, is based in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.beyond-software.com . -0- Note to Editors: Beyond Software, EnterpriseWeb, EnterpriseWeb/VM and EnterpriseWeb/MVS are trademarks of Beyond Software Inc. Aonix and NOMAD are registered trademarks and RP/Web is a trademark of Aonix Corp. All other company and product names are registered trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Beyond Software Inc. Todd Gebhart, 408/436-5900 toddg@beyond-software.com or Aonix Spike Kasper, 415/543-0900, ext. 312 spike@aonix.com |
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