Tatung Company to Ship CA'S Unicenter TNG Framework With All of its UNIX and Windows NT Servers.TAIPEI, Taiwan and ISLANDIA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 1997-- First Vendor In Taiwan To Offer CA's Industry-Leading Management Framework; Tatung's Clients To Receive Software At No Additional Cost Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and Tatung Co., Taiwan's leading vendor of workstations and PC servers, today announced that Tatung will bundle CA's Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) Framework with all its 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 servers. The Unicenter TNG Framework, which will be provided through Tatung's Information Systems Business Division, will be fully integrated and shipped on these servers at no additional cost to customers. Tatung joins 16 other leading hardware and software vendors around the world now bundling the Unicenter TNG Framework with their systems. Tatung is the first vendor in Taiwan and the second leading information technology leader in Asia to bundle the Unicenter TNG Framework in just the last few days. Earlier this week, CA announced a similar agreement with Hyundai Electronics, Inc., Korea's top vendor of PC servers. "CA's Unicenter TNG Framework provides tremendous value right out of the box, making CA the ideal enterprise management partner for Tatung, which is committed to delivering high-performance UNIX and NT server computing solutions that are reliable and easy-to-use," said Mr. W.S. Lin, president of Tatung Co. The agreement also allows Tatung to resell Unicenter TNG through its Computers and Communications Business Division. In addition, Tatung's Institute of Technology will be able to incorporate CA's enterprise management methodology and technologies into its standard curriculum, responding to ever-increasing market demands for enterprise management and object-oriented database skills. "Through this very important business alliance, CA and Tatung will provide Tatung's clients with a robust IT management solution that lowers operating costs, increases system uptime, and ultimately reduces the total cost of ownership," said CA Chairman 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. Charles B. Wang. "We are very pleased that Tatung has become the first systems vendor in Taiwan to market and deliver the Unicenter TNG Framework, as well as the full range of Unicenter TNG capabilities." Introduced in July to widespread industry acclaim, the Unicenter TNG Framework is an open, cross platform enterprise infrastructure for integrating management applications that initially supported Windows NT. Version 2.1 of the Framework, to be shipped by Tatung, extends that support to Hewlett-Packard 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. , Sun Solaris, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. 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"The inclusion of the Unicenter TNG Framework on Tatung's UNIX and PC servers allows us to deliver maximum value to our enterprise customers," said Peter Hsu, general manager of CA-Taiwan. "This alliance reinforces our position as the leading enterprise solutions provider for Taiwan, and the world." Unicenter TNG Framework is an open, cross-platform enterprise management infrastructure that helps clients and third-party vendors create IT management applications that work together in a cohesive fashion. It includes services for event management, discovery services, and scheduling, along with an industry-standard object repository to simplify the integration of application messages and events from many different management products. The framework delivers all the services and tools necessary for deploying customized management applications on all the industry's leading operating systems and hardware platforms. Mr. Shan-Chih Lin is the original founder of Tatung High School, the Tatung Institute of Technology, and Tatung Company. Mr. Lin initiated the world's most unique and indivisible INDIVISIBLE. That which cannot be separated. 2. It is important to ascertain when a consideration or a contract, is or is not indivisible. When a consideration is entire and indivisible, and it is against law, the contract is void in toto. 11 Verm. 592; 2 W. School-Company based on the managerial philosophy, "Education-Industry Integration for Research and Development; Labor-Management Unification for Industry Autonomy." The company, inherited by his son, Dr. T.S. Lin, achieved sales of $4.7 billion in 1996. Today, Tatung operates numerous worldwide subsidiaries and has over 30,000 employees. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 10,000 people in 160 offices in 40 countries and had revenue of $4 billion in fiscal year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com or calling 1-516-342-5224. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Frank Wu, CA Taiwan +(886-2) 545-5611 or Jenny Lu, CA, lu$je01@cai.com (516) 342-2534 or S.M. Tien, Tatung Co. +(886-2) 598-4589 |
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