Enlighten Software Solutions Announces Availability of EnlightenDSM 2.6.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1998--Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SFTW SFTW Something for the Weekend (band) ), a provider of workgroup administration and enterprise management solutions for the 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 Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. marketplaces, today announced the availability of version 2.6 of its award winning 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. Manager, EnlightenDSM for UNIX and NT. This new release of EnlightenDSM adds more precise monitoring and control of processes, further advances in security, and improvements for ease of use and overall manageability of the EnlightenDSM product and its components as they are installed and run across networks. EnlightenDSM has always offered customers a broad range of powerful systems management functionality including process monitoring. Now, the Monitoring and Events features of the product have been significantly enhanced to support more precise monitoring of multiple instances of the same process, including those running concurrently, and to exercise precise control over each individual instance of the processes from launch, throughout the execution life, and to process exiting. Evolving and improving software product security is a constant requirement, and the security features of EnlightenDSM 2.6 have been improved to further protect against unintentional or unauthorized access. Significant improvements have been made allowing users to more easily migrate to the new 2.6 release and future releases of EnlightenDSM. All user-defined data -- such as user preferences, previously defined groupings of users and machines, user definitions, and security settings -- are now preserved while upgrading to newer versions of the software. Historical and previously collected trend analysis data and all modified standard tests and newly created user custom tests also carry over. Additionally, beginning with version 2.6, EnlightenDSM incorporates the industry standard software licensing system from GLOBEtrotter Software, Inc. Users of EnlightenDSM now are able to take advantage of significant benefits in overall corporate software asset management. Globetrotter's widely used product FLEXlm(R) creates a central repository of information that inventories all software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. currently installed on the system. Additionally, customers can exercise flexibility in managing the deployment of EnlightenDSM software components to specific hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. such that licensed software components can easily be moved from one platform to another. Finally, version 2.6 of EnlightenDSM also includes support for the latest release of Silicon Graphics' operating system, IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. (R) 6.5 including the all new IRIX print management systems and architecture. The workgroup version of EnlightenDSM 2.6 is currently being bundled on every new Silicon Graphics server and workstation running IRIX 6.5 and is being shipped to SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. maintenance customers upgrading to IRIX 6.5. EnlightenDSM continues to set the standard for ease of use and deployment in the systems management software field. The product provides near term return on investment for customers through its speed of implementation, flexibility of configuration and low cost of acquisition. The product increases productivity for the systems administration team by simplifying complex and lengthy tasks and consolidating system wide information. It allows them to delegate mundane and time consuming tasks to less technical users throughout an organization without relinquishing centralized control and privileged user authority. EnlightenDSM also increases system availability through improved monitoring and control of resources and users. About Enlighten Software Solutions Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. is a provider of UNIX and NT workgroup administration and events monitoring solutions for open systems distributed computing. The Company's award winning EnlightenDSM product suite provides cost-effective systems administration solutions for mixed vendor environments including DEC, Hewlett-Packard, 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) , SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. , Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems and Windows NT. The EnlightenDSM product suite provides comprehensive functionality with unprecedented ease of installation and use. EnlightenDSM conforms to industry standard frameworks and allows seamless integration with other vendors' point solutions. GLOBEtrotter, GLOBEtrotter Software, and FLEXlm are registered trademarks of GLOBEtrotter Software, Inc. IRIX is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. CONTACT: Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. Bill Bradley Vice President, Business Development 999 Baker Way, Fifth Floor San Mateo, Calif. 94404-1568 650/578-0700 650/578-0118 fax info@sftw.com http://www.EnlightenDSM.com |
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