Boole & Babbage Announces General Availability of MAX/Enterprise 4.1; Boole & Babbage Continues Commitment to Former MAXM Customers.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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998--Boole & Babbage(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:BOOL), a leader in availability and service level management for distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , today announced general availability of the new version of its MAX/Enterprise product. Boole & Babbage completed their acquisition of MAXM, the developers of the MAX/Enterprise product, over 20 months ago. Boole & Babbage continues to support the product line and offer substantially enhanced functionality and interoperability with the MAX/Enterprise 4.1. MAX/Enterprise serves as an enterprise service level manager, consolidating standard and non-standard systems, networks, devices and even multiple frameworks to a central management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. . "When Boole & Babbage first purchased MAXM, we were extremely nervous," said Pavel Gimuriman, vice president for CitiBank. "We had made a substantial investment in the Max/Enterprise product and were worried that the time and money we had invested in the product would be wasted. Over a year and half later, we are extremely impressed that Boole & Babbage has not discontinued the MAX/Enterprise product, but continues to respond to our requests for product enhancements and to deliver them." "Boole & Babbage has proved the exception to the rule of mergers and acquisitions," said Paul Mason
Paul Mason of IDC. "Instead of forcing the former MAXM customers to migrate from Max/Enterprise, they have continued to support the product. I have never seen a more satisfied post-acquisition customer base." The new version features: certified interoperability with leading frameworks, enabling customers to leverage their framework investments; wider platform support for the COMMAND/POST Explorer operations interface, allowing customers to distribute service level management information to more users throughout their organization; a streamlined administration interface for easier and faster deployment; and integrated reporting and charting capabilities for both real-time and historical service level analysis. "Boole & Babbage is committed to guarding our customer's investments in our technology," said Gary Read, senior director client/server marketing for Boole & Babbage. "We've made rapid installation and ease-of-use pivotal features of the new version of MAX/Enterprise to ensure an even more rapid ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). for our customers." About Boole & Babbage Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in availability and service level management for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation product lines provide a management solution for the entire IT enterprise that encompass systems, applications, middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a , databases and Web technologies. The Boole & Babbage set of solutions is currently used by large manufacturing companies, domestic and international government agencies, the majority of the world's largest financial institutions, airlines, IT outsourcers and utilities to improve service levels and reduce IT management costs. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage is the oldest publicly traded independent software vendor in the systems management industry and today is approximately a $225 million company with 930 employees in 43 offices in 26 countries. Corporate headquarters are located in San Jose For more information, visit us on the Web at www.boole.com, or call 800/544-2152. Boole & Babbage, Inc. is a Tivoli premiere partner, a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) premier partner, an 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) (NYSE:IBM) BESTeam Member, and a Microsoft (Nasdaq:MFST MFST Mobile Field Surgical Team MFST Mobile Forward Surgical Team (USAF) MFST Microbiologically Food Safety Tested MFST Mobile Freight Search Team (UK) ) Solutions Developer. Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage and COMMAND/POST are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. All other product names and trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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