Cybermation Develops ESP Agent Technology for Linux on eServer zSeries; Extends Workload Management Solutions to Important New Emerging Platform.

Business/Technology Editors

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2001

Cybermation Inc., a leading Canadian developer of integrated enterprise systems management software, announced the general availability of its ESP Agent for Linux/390 v2.0.3. This ESP Agent supports a family of Linux variants that operate on IBM(1) eServer(2) z900 and S/390 mainframes.

ESP Agents are compact, event-driven applications that extend Cybermation's ESP Workload Manager and ESP Espresso job scheduling solutions across multiple operating systems, maximizing an organization's existing IT investment. Well over a dozen ESP Agents already exist, offering a single, integrated workload management solution for UNIX, Windows NT/2000, OS/400 and other popular operating systems to define, schedule, execute, monitor and manage batch workload. In particular, the new Linux/390 Agent provides the important, emerging Linux operating system with access to Cybermation's leading solutions.

"Cybermation continues to help set the standard in the workload management arena," commented Ray Nissan, Cybermation's chairman and chief technology architect. "Many of our customers and prospects are seriously exploring the Linux/390 operating systems and we're pleased to provide them with a stable, robust, and proven solution."

Joann Duguid, Director, Linux marketing zSeries at IBM stated, "The availability of Cybermation's Linux/390 ESP Agent demonstrates how working as a member of IBM's PartnerWorld for Developers can lead to the development of valuable systems management tools for enabling and exploiting traditional z900 and S/390 benefits. The z900 and S/390 platforms provide our customers with measurable price-performance benefits, and now the ESP Agent for Linux/390 complements Cybermation ESP solutions on today's well-received Linux mainframe environment."

The ESP Agent for Linux/390 is now available. For more information, contact Cybermation at [phone] or www.cybermation.com.

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognized by its many Global 2000 customers as a leading developer of best-of-breed automation solutions for job scheduling, workload management and software change management for heterogeneous computing environments, and for its systems management expertise. The company's products include ESP Workload Manager(R) for enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management for OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and OS/400(R) operating systems as well as for SAP R/3, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP environments; ESP Espresso(R) for distributed job scheduling in any environment; ESP Workstation graphical user interface for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control; ESP Encore(R) for automated rerun, restart and recovery; ESP Console Manager(R) for console automation; and Alchemist, software change management system for both software development and data-center production environments. Cybermation's customers include Hudson's Bay Company, Statistics Canada, and CN Rail in Canada, Allstate Insurance, JC Penney, Nike, Deere & Co. and Verizon in the United States, and One 2 One, Sony Europe, VHV and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and has offices throughout the United States, Europe and Australia.

(1) IBM, z900, S/390, OS/390, and OS/400 are all registered trademarks of the IBM Corporation.

(2) The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the following descriptive term "server" following it.