Bull Highlights Software Solutions For Complex, Distributed Computing Environments; Bull's Innovative PowerPC OEM Products A Cornerstone Of Exhibit.for a competitive edge... How to manage and secure worldwide networks for greater cost-effectiveness and flexibility... Enabling electronic commerce on the World Wide Web... Widely recognized in Europe for advanced distributed-computing solutions, Bull will highlight software solutions and platform technology that address these and other critical U.S. business needs when it demonstrates recent major software thrusts here at Uniforum `96. The show opens today at the Moscone Convention Center. Bull (Booth No. 1725, South Hall) will display a broad range of products and services from the company's Open Systems and Software division, including enterprise-wide solutions for data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse , leading-edge systems and network management, and Web access to CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without applications. Bull will also exhibit servers and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and products based on its innovative PowerPC-based SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. architecture, PowerScale. Among the highlights will be Distributed Data Warehousing (DDW DDW Digestive Disease Week DDW Diseases of the Developing World DDW Dimensional Data Warehouse DDW Digital Data Warfare DDW Darkness Does Wonders (bar slang) DDW Data Driven Workflow ), a total data warehousing creation and support solution of data access products and multiple warehouse tools for building and maintaining virtual and physical data warehouses. The architecture offers a scalable, flexible, open, and distributed means to consolidate data on the warehouse database and present data at the desktop using PC business analysis tools for projections, reports and developing recommendations. Also a focal point focal point n. See focus. at Uniforum will be ISM/OpenMaster, Bull's flagship systems and network management solution. Based on object-oriented technology See object technology. , ISM/OpenMaster provides an open, integrated framework and growing suite of tools for the management of multi-platform 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). and PC-based systems and networks, wide area communications links, proprietary hosts, internetworking devices, security and applications. Currently in use at more than 500 customer sites worldwide, ISM/OpenMaster became commercially available in the U.S. in January. New Internet initiatives on display will be the recently announced WebKix server software from UniKix Technologies, a Bull business unit. WebKix provides Internet/World Wide Web access to 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) CICS applications, automatically translating 3270 data streams to HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. format, without changes to the legacy CICS applications. This high-performance, scalable and secure WebKix solution is expected to significantly strengthen the opportunities for business transactions and electronic commerce on the Web. WebKix server software eliminates the costly steps involved in re-engineering the many CICS applications that drive numerous banking, financial, and service sector applications. Bull will demonstrate these solutions on its high-performance Escala platforms, a family of AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. servers built on the company's advanced PowerScale architecture - which, as an OEM product line, also forms the cornerstone of open systems from key Bull partners. As part of its emphasis on PowerScale, Bull will also highlight recent new partnerships in the OEM market, its extensive development of PowerPC 620 microprocessor-based systems, and recent work on Internet and Web products. Bull is one of the largest information systems companies in the world, with a presence in more than 100 countries and combined revenues of approximately $5.4 billion. The group is a major systems and technologies integrator offering a comprehensive range of solutions, services and support capabilities. -0- PowerPC and AIX are registered trademarks of IBM Corp., and are being used under license. CICS is a trademark of IBM Corp. PowerScale and Escala are trademarks of Bull. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Ltd. All trademarks, service marks and company names are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Bruce MacDonald Anne-Marie Jourdain Bull HN Information Bull Open Systems Systems Inc. and Software 508-294-5812 (33)-1-30-80-35-16 (Paris) |
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