FullTime Software Inc. Introduces Industry's First Solutions for Proactively Managing Application Service Level Availability.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)--July 7, 1998-- FullTime Keeps Critical Enterprise Information and Applications Available Across Continuum of Business Events FullTime(TM) Software 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 :FTSW), a leading developer of enterprise-wide, cross-platform adaptive computing Also known as "reconfigurable computing," it refers to a logic chip that can change its physical circuitry on the fly. Evolved from programmable architectures such as CPLD and FPGA, adaptive computing is an order of magnitude faster in rate of reuse (ROR) and can reconfigure itself in solutions, today announced its new FullTime product line: FullTime Cluster(TM) 4.0, FullTime Data(TM) 4.0, FullTime Awareness Modules(TM) and FullTime Software Development Kit(TM) (SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). ). These products are the first to enable Fortune 1000 customers to proactively manage service level availability. They ensure applications, data and resources remain available to users during both planned and unplanned events, enabling IT to optimize system operations and continuously tune applications without compromising service levels. FullTime Software also announced two bundled solutions, FullTime Enterprise(TM) 4.0 and FullTime Department(TM) 4.0. These solutions are made up of combinations of the new FullTime standalone products and will be available with professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and support. FullTime Enterprise offers IT professionals a powerful, customizable solution for optimizing the service levels of enterprise-wide applications across a variety of IS environments. FullTime Department is the first software solution designed specifically with the needs of departmental business users in mind. Its powerful capabilities help ensure availability of workgroup and departmental applications and data, yet it is easy to install and provides a wizard-based interface to ease ongoing management and tuning. "These new products are built upon several years of experience working with enterprise and department customers, as well as experience with our three generations of high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. and data protection products," said Rick Thau, chairman, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of FullTime Software. Redefining High Availability FullTime Software's four new standalone products and two bundled solutions redefine the concept of high availability to eliminate downtime resulting from planned computing events, such as operational maintenance or application tuning. Consequently, organizations can install, tune, maintain, upgrade and alter applications and systems to constantly match their business requirements -- without sacrificing service availability. Additionally, FullTime Software's products enable customers to slash the total cost of ownership for applications and optimize server and software investments by allowing users to leverage available server resources. FullTime Adaptive Computing Environment FullTime Software's solutions are built on the FullTime Adaptive Computing Environment, a software architecture that layers transparently across a company's existing infrastructure (data, applications, platforms and standard TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. networks). Its event and rules engine can sense computing events -- in applications, data, systems and networks -- and trigger the appropriate response to ensure optimum availability. Business rules concerning priority applications, service levels, etc. can be integrated within the FullTime Adaptive Computing Environment to ensure that resources respond to events based on specific business needs. For example, if CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization climbs as more users attach to a monitored server, Service Level Agreements may become endangered. FullTime proactively and transparently adapts managed application resources as appropriate to increase available capacity, ensuring that service levels are protected, and users' requests are continuously serviced. Industry Comment "With the rise of IP-based business systems such as Electronic Data Interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. and business-to-business e-commerce, comes an increasing dependence on around-the-clock transactions to satisfy global demands," said Carolyn DiCenzo, director and principal analyst, Dataquest. "Accessibility is a foundation of e-business, and downtime is an obstacle in the viability of online commerce. "This creates a perfect opportunity for companies entering the market with innovative solutions aimed at eliminating downtime no matter what the cause." FullTime Software Products FullTime Cluster 4.0 FullTime Cluster 4.0, for 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. (R) or 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). environments, creates collaborative clusters of server resources across platforms, networks and applications to provide optimum service level availability of applications and data. The software supports up to 100 nodes in a cluster and allows customers to manage groups of resources, even across multiple tiers or cross-platform nodes. With Full-Time Cluster's built-in load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them capabilities, customers can relocate resource groups based on events such as time-of-day or load fluctuations. For example, if a business requires more resources supporting e-business applications every Friday afternoon, the customer can create a rule to tell FullTime to proactively move the e-business applications to the server with the most available processing capacity at that time. FullTime Cluster 4.0 for Windows NT will be available in July 1998 with prices starting at $10,000 for an entry-level, two-node cluster A two-node cluster is the minimal high-availability cluster that can be built. Should one node fail (for a hardware or software problem), the other must acquire the resources being previously managed by the failed node, in order to re-enable access to these resources. configuration. Support for UNIX platforms begins with Sun Solaris in September, while support for HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. will be available starting in Q4 1998. FullTime Data 4.0 FullTime Data 4.0 provides high performance, real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. replication across LANs and WANs for virtually any data type. Only changes in protected data are captured and forwarded to the targeted nodes, ensuring that network utilization is optimized. FullTime Data replicates data at transfer rates that dramatically exceed those demonstrated by FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to . FullTime Data is fully integrated within the FullTime Adaptive Computing Environment to offer a comprehensive application and data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. solution. This product is ideal for data exchange and synchronization, data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. among remote sites and corporate headquarters and disaster recovery. FullTime Data will be available for Windows NT, Sun Solaris and HP-UX environments in July, with prices starting at $5,000 for an entry-level, two-node cluster configuration. FullTime Data 4.0 for IBM AIX is expected in Q4 1998. FullTime Awareness Modules and SDK FullTime Awareness Modules are sets of tools designed to fine-tune FullTime Software's control of an application, database or system, such as Oracle, SAP, Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. or Microsoft Exchange. FullTime SDK 4.0 enables developers to fine-tune FullTime Awareness Modules or create new Awareness Modules for custom or proprietary applications. FullTime Awareness Modules are expected to be available via FullTime Professional Services, or through certified business partners, in July. Pre-packaged modules will be available later in Q3 1998. FullTime SDKs will be available coincident with platform availability. FullTime Software Bundled Solutions FullTime Enterprise 4.0 FullTime Enterprise 4.0 bundles the capabilities of Cluster and Data into a single offering which can be customized to fit any IT requirement. It provides a flexible and customizable solution suited to large enterprise environments -- which is also easily integrated with the FullTime Department solution. FullTime Enterprise features cross-platform clustering capabilities and supports a mixed-workload environment -- all configured and managed via a central console. It is designed for integration with a variety of packaged industry applications, and can also be customized to support in-house solutions. FullTime Enterprise 4.0 will also be available, bundled with service and support, coincident with platform availability. FullTime Department 4.0 FullTime Department 4.0 is the first software solution designed to ensure service level availability across applications and data for workgroup and department environments. It features service level management components that work together to ensure that business-critical workgroup solutions, such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, IIS (Internet Information Services) Microsoft's Web server. IIS runs under the server versions of Windows, adding HTTP server capability to the Windows operating system. and Lotus Notes, are available when users need them. Designed with easy-to-use graphical wizards, FullTime Department helps users tune its adaptive computing capabilities. It is also designed to facilitate collaboration at an inter-departmental level. FullTime Department 4.0 will be available on Microsoft's Windows NT platform in Q3 1998. About FullTime Software FullTime Software is a leading developer of enterprise-wide, cross platform adaptive computing solutions that enable customers to proactively manage application service level availability. Its products help customers to optimize IT resources while maximizing reliability, accessibility and efficiency of applications across a continuum of business events. FullTime Software products have assured the availability of business-critical applications at more than 17,000 installations around the world, including government organizations and Fortune 1000 companies in the telecommunications, finance, retail, high technology and other industries. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., with 24 offices worldwide and distribution across more than 70 countries. Effective July 7, 1998, the Company began conducting business as "FullTime Software, Inc.", and trading in the company's common stock will commence on the NASDAQ National Market under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors "FTSW." At its upcoming annual meeting to be held in November, the company will seek the necessary approval to change the company's legal name to FullTime Software, Inc. For more information, contact FullTime Software at 650/572-0200, e-mail info-pr@fullsw.com or visit http://www.fulltimesoftware.com. Except for historical information, the information in this news release is forward-looking including with respect to its earnings for the quarter and year which ended June 30, 1998, and subject to certain risks, including without limitation, those described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1997 and Forms 10-Q for the quarters ended September 30, 1997 and December 31, 1997, and March 31, 1998. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that future results, outcomes or events will not vary, perhaps materially, from those contained in such forward-looking statements. Note to Editors: Qualix Group, Octopus, FullTime and FullTime Software are trademarks of FullTime Software, Inc. All other product, trademark, company or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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