Legent Delivers Seven Client/Server Operations Management Products; First Prevail automation product from joint HP/Legent development agreement.HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 1994--Legent today announced it is now delivering seven Prevail/XP products that utilize XPE XPE XP Embedded XPE XProtect Enterprise (Milestone Systems) XPE Cross Platform Environment XPE Experience Embedded XPE Exchange Point (Cross-Platform Environment) technology to provide cross-platform automation, output management and production control. The products announced today include Prevail/XP-Automation Point 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. , a jointly developed automation product that integrates Hewlett Packard's OpenView OperationsCenter technology into Legent's Prevail/XP-Automation Point product for enterprise-wide automation. "We're pleased that our joint development relationship with HP has accelerated Legent's delivery of products for the open systems market," said Suzanne Nicastro, vice president and general manager of Legent's operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. business unit. "Relationships such as this are key elements of Legent's strategy geared to provide our customers with the widest possible range of systems management solutions for the enterprise." "Customers can now benefit from Legent's Prevail/XP products by managing 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. from the central OpenView OperationsCenter console. This first set of released products demonstrates the strengths of the alliance between HP and Legent in tackling the management of mainframe and distributed systems," said Robert Hoog, General Manager of HP's Network & Systems Management Division. The Prevail/XP products announced today include: Prevail/XP-Automation Point for HP-UX and Prevail/XP-Automation Point AS/400 Manager for automation, Prevail/XP-View, Prevail/XP-Spool, Prevail/XP-Deliver, Prevail/XP-Connect for output management, and Prevail/XP-Jobtrac Remote for event scheduling Event scheduling is the activity of finding a suitable time for an event such as meeting, conference, trip, etc. It is an important part of event planning that is usually carried out at its beginning stage. . Prevail/XP Automation Prevail/XP-Automation Point for HP-UX brings Legent's robust automation capabilities to the HP-UX operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . It is based on manager/agent technology which distributes intelligent automation across the enterprise, allowing users to identify and resolve problems closer to their source. Prevail/XP-Automation Point serves as a single point of control for all automation activity in both legacy and open environments, managing a variety of systems such as MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , VM, DEC, OS/2, and 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). . It allows administrators to view and automate multiple sessions on a large variety of platforms, and invoke visual or audible alerts either locally or through paging networks. The product is the first phase of a joint development plan announced last April to integrate HP's OpenView OperationsCenter with Prevail/XP-Automation Point, which allows customers to automate mainframes and open systems as a single environment. Prevail/XP-Automation Point AS/400 Manager is designed to enhance the operations of single or multiple AS/400 servers regardless of configuration or geography. The AS/400 Manager can monitor and automate alerts from multiple AS/400 systems within a mixed environment of mainframes and distributed systems. Prevail/XP Output Management The Prevail/XP output management products, Prevail/XP-Deliver, Prevail/XP- View, and Prevail/XP-Spool, work together to provide a radically new approach to on-line automated report distribution, on-line viewing of documents and remote printing. The release of these products represents the first phase of Legent's enterprise document strategy, which will give users the ability to print, control and view documents for the mainframe and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. environments. In addition, Prevail/XP-View and Prevail/XP-Deliver feature cross-indexing, multi-level report indexing, and expanded support for tape, robotics, and optical access which gives organizations a complete solution for microfiche Pronounced "micro-feesh." A 4x6" sheet of film that holds several hundred miniaturized document pages. See micrographics. replacement. Prevail/XP-Spool provides users with the capability to print on remote printers connected via TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. . Prevail/XP-Connect, which allows mainframe to LAN print file transfer, now supports Novell NetWare (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. . The product supports OS/2 and NetWare printers, bridging traditional mainframe systems with open, distributed environments. When Prevail/XP- Connect is integrated with Legent's other automated output management products, customers have a single point of control for printing and archiving documents, as well as automated and unattended download of multiple documents. Prevail/XP Production Control Prevail/XP-Jobtrac Remote provides a consolidated view and control of all scheduled events across multiple systems, such as AS/400, RS/6000, SUN Solaris and HP-UX, through manager/agent technology and an MVS-based Prevail/XP-Jobtrac server. Prevail/XP-Jobtrac Remote simplifies cross-platform event definition and supports cross-platform event scheduling dependencies, allowing organizations to leverage existing staff expertise to manage workload across their enterprise. Prevail/XP Product Family Products announced today are part of the Prevail/XP product family, which consists of 18 modular, integrated products in five product suites that provide solutions for enterprise service management. These five suites address automated systems operations, output management, production control, device management, and problem management. Built on Legent's XPE strategy, Prevail/XP products extend the automation of systems management to heterogeneous environments. Prevail/XP products span the most popular hardware and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , including HP-UX, IBM's AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , MVS, and VM, SUN Solaris, DEC OpenVMS, and Tandem Guardian. Prevail/XP components have been designed to work together, as well as interface with other software products. Pricing and Availability Prevail/XP-Automation Point for HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System and Prevail/XP-Jobtrac Remote will be generally available in December. All other products announced today are available now. Pricing for Legent's automation products is now based upon the number and sizes of connections and devices to be managed. There is no longer a license charge for the Automation Point base product. For example, the price of the Automation Point AS/400 Manager, used to manage an average-sized AS/400 processor, would be $2,000. Pricing for Automation Point, where it would be connected to manage a DEC and a Tandem machine from an HP-UX workstation, would be $3,000 (for 1-15 connections). The output management MVS-based products are priced by 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. Group. For example, Prevail/XP-View or Prevail/XP-Spool running on a 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) 9121 Model 732, a Group 40 machine, would have a perpetual list price of $26,800 and $26,600 respectively. Base perpetual prices range from $16,100 on a Group 20 machine for Prevail/XP-View to $70,200 for Prevail/XP-Deliver on a Group 110 machine. Prevail/XP-Connect is priced on a per server basis. For example: Prevail/XP-Connect running on one LAN server would have a perpetual list price of $5,000; 250+ servers would list at $2,000 per server. Pricing for the Prevail/XP-Jobtrac Remote would include a license fee for the base Prevail/XP Jobtrac product which starts at $41,200, and additional fees for agents. To manage events on the AS/400 and RS/6000 platforms, for example, there are additional costs for agents which range from $1,000 - $5,000 per agent. Legent's Cross-Platform Environment (XPE), the company's open systems strategy, is designed to provide the highest level of interoperability in managing distributed applications, systems, databases, and networks. Since XPE's introduction, Legent has delivered an increasing number of products that use XPErtware, a message-oriented middleware product that offers a standard communication layer insulating systems management applications from the underlying platforms and protocols. Legent Corporation (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 : LGNT LGNT Lignite (lithological term) LGNT Local Grant ), headquartered in Herndon, Va., is a leading international supplier of software and services for the management of distributed computing across the enterprise. Legent's open systems strategy, XPE (Cross-Platform Environment), is the company's approach to distributed enterprise computing. This strategy encompasses interoperable host, server, and desktop computing environments. Since 1989, Legent has provided software to maximize information technology, and today has 75,000 products in use at 12,000 customers sites. -0- All product names listed herein are trademarks which are owned by the companies which market and distribute the product associated with those names. CONTACT: Legent Corporation, Herndon Kathy Shuman, 703/708-3118 KEYWORDS: VIRGINIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS REPEATS: New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 212-575-8822 or 800-221-2462; Boston 617-330-5311 or |
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