PLATINUM AND MEMCO ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT AND CLIENT/SERVER SECURITY PACKAGE; New tool offers mainframe-quality security for open systems.

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 1995--PLATINUM technology, inc., today announced an agreement with Memco Software Inc., and the joint release of a security package designed for the Open Enterprise Environment (OEE) based on the SeOS technology currently marketed by Memco Software. The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System addresses one of the major challenges corporate IT managers face today, how to secure the heterogeneous computing environment comprising open systems and mainframe computers.

Terms of the agreement include: An investment in Memco by PLATINUM; participation by PLATINUM on Memco's board; perpetual source code rights to SeOS, a best of breed enterprise security software package; first right of refusal to acquire the remainder of Memco's business.

As part of the agreement, PLATINUM will develop, enhance, and integrate this technology as PLATINUM's Enterprise Security System at its development laboratories and will distribute the product through its worldwide distribution channels. Memco will continue to develop and provide to PLATINUM enhancements to the SeOS technology, as well as distribute the technology independently, as it does today.

Unlike other security packages on the market today, the PLATINUM Enterprise Security System lets data security personnel and systems administrators implement an active control mechanism instead of the reactive method of patching security holes as they are discovered. The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System provides mainframe-level security for the OEE, the networked heterogeneous computing environment found in most corporations today. The software integrates mainframe, UNIX, DCE and other security systems into a seamless environment administered from a single workstation.

The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System is an integral part of PLATINUM's strategy to provide best of breed, complete systems management for the OEE and is a key component of the company's PLATINUM Open Enterprise Management System (P.O.E.M.S.) architecture. P.O.E.M.S. will help corporate IT departments manage all related information processing tasks, from data warehousing to job management and software distribution.

"We believe that managing a corporation's most valuable asset -- information -- must include security," said Andrew J. Filipowski, president and CEO of PLATINUM technology, inc. "Our corporate IT customers are demanding active security tools to help them safeguard their data. The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System incorporates what we believe to be the best technology for aggressively securing corporate information residing in multiple locations in heterogeneous computing networks."

"Memco's leading security solution fits in naturally with PLATINUM's P.O.E.M.S. strategy to form a unique and strong partnership," said Israel Mazin, Memco Software's chairman. "Our combined efforts bring to open systems a new and mature vision of security and seamless integration in a diversified computing environment."

The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System protects critical system assets including user login, file access, user IDs, network connections, privileged programs, and important processes. It eliminates UNIX's biggest security breach, the Superuser, and delegates limited authority to separate administrators. The software provides full accountability and the accurate tracing of every action to a specific individual. This architecture does not replace any system code provided by the operating system vendors.

Security administrators can use the PLATINUM Enterprise Security System's GUI (graphical user interface) tool to easily create reports and change security definitions across multiple hosts in different locations from a single UNIX workstation. In addition, the GUI tool can be used to manage other security systems, such as native UNIX, DCE, and mainframe IBM/RACF and CA-ACF2.

The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System will be available immediately under the SeOS brand name from PLATINUM technology and Memco Software. Pricing will start at $30,000. The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System supports IBM mainframe computers running MVS with RACF, CA-ACF2, or CA-TOP SECRET; IBM System/6000 computers running AIX 3.2.x, AIX 4.1; Sun Microsystems workstations running Solaris 1.x (SunOS) and 2.x; and Hewlett-Packard HP 9000 Series computers running HP/UX 9.x.

PLATINUM's Strategic Direction

The agreement with Memco and the addition of The PLATINUM Enterprise Security System to the PLATINUM family of products strengthens the company's move into Open Enterprise Systems Management (OESM) -- which ties together critical management functions of both MVS and open client/server systems. PLATINUM's OESM will help information systems executives manage their open enterprise environments by linking the data management, network management, job management, production management, database administration, back-up and recovery, security, program management, help desk, and transaction management functions.

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