Unison Software's Maestro chosen by Siemens Nixdorf for port to MIPS-ABI; Unison Maestro is "Key Job Scheduling Software".SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 1995--Unison Software, a leading provider of 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. management software for the Unix and open systems market, announced a joint project with Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme, AG (SNI) was formed in the mid 1990s by the merger of Nixdorf Computer AG and the Siemens' Data Information Services (DIS) division. AG (SNI (1) (Subscriber Network Interface) The point of interface between the customer's equipment (CPE) and a communications service from a common carrier. (2) (SNA Network I ), in Paderborn, Germany, to port Unison's Maestro job scheduler A job scheduler is an enterprise software application that is in charge of unattended background executions, commonly known for historical reasons as batch processing. They may also be known as Distributed Resource Management Systems (DRMS) or to MIPS-ABI for use on Siemens Nixdorf's RM-Systems. The port, scheduled to be completed by the first quarter of 1995, will make Maestro available for the RM-Systems within SNI's Independent Software Vendor program. As part of the joint project, the two companies are exchanging technical expertise, and will engage in joint marketing activities as the porting work progresses. "This agreement benefits Siemens Nixdorf See Fujitsu Siemens. because we are now able to offer our customers the key job scheduling software on the market," said Dr. Bartholomaeus Kellerer, Director Engineering Division SINIX SINIX Siemens-Nixdorf Sinix Siemens Unix Systems of SNI. "We evaluated Maestro and we feel it is the key solution for our customers' needs." "We are very pleased to be partnering with Siemens Nixdorf," said Lacy Edwards, president of Unison Software. "They are a premier international corporation and we believe Maestro will provide their customers with the best workload management technology available. As Unison continues to grow in the Unix marketplace, partnerships like this one greatly enhance our business." Unison's Maestro for Unix is a job-scheduling and workload-management solution for Unix systems, providing network fault tolerance. It is available for the HP 9000, 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) RS/6000, and Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill platforms. The product enables systems managers and administrators to automate cross-platform job scheduling and tracking to increase throughput and reduce processing errors. MIPS-ABI is a standard that allows software vendors to do a port to one platform and then deploy the port across all Unix platforms with no recompiling. Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is a systems partner with universal expertise in the field of information technology. It is one of the world's largest companies in this area and is the largest supplier of information technology of European origin. In the last fiscal year (1 Oct 1993-30 Sept 1994) Siemens Nixdorf had incoming orders worth DM 11.7 billion and revenues of DM 11.7 billion. Siemens Nixdorf has a work force of about 39,000 and is represented in 45 countries. Unison Software Founded in 1979, Unison is a leading supplier of networked systems management solutions for MIS and department managers. Unison is the established leader in systems management for the Hewlett-Packard marketplace and has moved into the open systems market with support for the leading Unix platforms, including the HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, Sun SPARC, Sequent, and Siemens-Nixdorf MIPS-ABI. The company's product line includes network workload management, storage management, output management, and desktop integration. For further information contact Unison Software at 5101 Patrick Henry Drive., Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Phone 408/988-2800, Fax 408/988-2236, E-mail: info@unison.com. Worldwide Web Server: www@unison.com. -0- All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. CONTACT: Unison Software Robert Lee, 408/988-2800 Siemens Nixdorf Georg Vetter, 089 636-48616 |
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