Brio, IBM and SCO Help Intel Demonstrate the Power of the New Pentium III Xeon Processor.PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999-- First of a Kind Demo Highlights New Platform for Delivering Enterprise-class Business Intelligence Solutions In conjunction with today's launch of Intel's new Pentium III Xeon Processor, Brio Technology (Nasdaq:BRYO BRYO Brisbane Regional Youth Orchestra (Brisbane, Australia) BRYO Brunswick Maine Youth Orchestra (now Maine Youth Orchestra) ), 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 NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) and SCO (Nasdaq:SCOC SCOC Supreme Court of Canada SCOC Second Coming of Christ SCOC System Control and Operations Concept SCOC Saginaw Community Outreach Center (Saginaw, Michigan) ) joined forces to demonstrate the latest in enterprise processing power. At simultaneous events in New York and San Francisco, the industry leaders demonstrated for the first time a combination of technologies and products that reveal the true exploitative power of eight Pentium III Xeon processors running at speeds of 500 MHz. In the only demonstration being shown on an 8-way PIIIXP-based server, the companies have brought together IBM's Decision Edge for Sales Analysis, SAP, which includes the Brio Enterprise business intelligence suite, with the scalable database flexibility of DB2 running on SCO's UnixWare 7. "Today's most competitive companies are demanding complete hardware and software solutions that provide not only high performance but also the flexibility and reliability to meet the demands of both client-server as well as Internet-based applications," said Chris Grejtak, executive vice president of marketing for BrioTechnology. "Today's IBM-Brio-SCO collaboration clearly demonstrates the power of the new Intel processor and highlights the incredible scalability and performance available to deliver enterprise class business intelligence solutions." "Companies rely on business intelligence solutions such as Decision Edge for Sales Analysis to maintain their competitive advantage," said Doug Warrilow, Director, Enterprise Marketing for SCO. "These business critical solutions require the scalability, flexibility and performance delivered by UnixWare 7. Today SCO is delivering the power that volume Intel systems need to move into the data center." "IBM's DB2 Universal Database and DecisionEdge for Sales Analysis provide both a high-performance database and scalable application platform," said Jim Kelly, vice president, data management marketing, IBM Software Solutions. "This combination perfectly complements the power and performance of the new Intel 8-processor Pentium III Xeon-based server." DB2 Universal Database is the industry's first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system relational database management system - relational database -- powerful enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small businesses. DB2 Universal Database combines power for business intelligence (decision support, data warehousing and data mining) with industry-leading performance and reliability for transaction processing. It delivers on IBM's network computing e-business promise, linking the world's business information with the Internet to realize business value. For more information on IBM's DecisionEdge for Sales Analysis, SAP solution, please see http://www.brio.com/press/021999.ibm.html. For more information about IBM's DecisionEdge solutions, visit http://www.ibm.com/bi. About SCO SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider of network computing software that enables clients of all kinds including PCs, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella tarantella (târ`əntĕl`ə), Neapolitan folk dance that first appeared in Taranto, Italy, in the 17th cent. It had rapid 6–8 meter with an increasing tempo and was thought to cure the bite of the tarantula, which supposedly software, the world's first application broker for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. home page at: http://www.sco.com. About Brio Technology Brio Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRYO) is a leading provider of enterprise business intelligence software. Brio develops, markets and supports software products that improve the ability of business professionals to make timely, fact-based business decisions. Available in five languages on ten platforms, the Brio Enterprise suite of products is used by businesses in more than 20 countries. Brio products are available through direct sales and services organizations located in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Australia, and worldwide through VARs, resellers and distributors. Brio has commercial relationships with Access Graphics, Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ), Netscape (Nasdaq:NSCP NSCP National Schistosomiasis Control Program NSCP National Space Communications Program NSCP Native (Mode) Service Control Point (Tandem) ), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ). Brio Technology is based in Palo Alto, Calif., and can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.brio.com, or by calling 800/879-BRIO. Brio Technology, BrioQuery, Brio OnDemand Server, Brio Broadcast Server, Brio.Insight and Brio.Quickview are trademarks of Brio Technology, Inc. SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation See SCO. Santa Cruz Operation - (SCO) A supplier of Unix systems for Intel microprocessors. They supply Xenix and Open Desktop. Founded in 1979, SCO became a public company in May, 1993 and trades on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SCOC. , the SCO logo, and UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc, in the US and other countries. 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). is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. Other trademarks used throughout this document are trademarks of their respective holders. |
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