sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Third Party Announcements SunFLASH Vol 58 #1 October 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts 59.01.A Montage Announces powerful object-relational DBMS The Montage database system extends the widely-accepted relational database model, enabling users to store, manage and analyze complex data such as audio, video and images in a single database with traditional text and numbers, using industry-standard structured query language (SQL). 59.01.B Tivoli Systems Announces New Distributed Systems Management Software, Platforms, and Customer Relationships Makes $1 Million Sales of Tivoli Management Environment to GTE Telephone Operations and Motorola Business Unit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59.01.A Subject: Montage Announces powerful object-relational DBMS Contact: Kay Hart Org: Montage Software, Inc. Phone: 510-652-8000, Ext. 152 MONTAGE SOFTWARE INTRODUCES FIRST OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Powerful New System Extends Relational Model to Support Sound, Images and Video as Well as Traditional Numbers and Text Data In One Database Emeryville, Calif., Oct. 26, 1993 -- Montage Software, Inc., today announced its flagship product -- a powerful new object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). The Montage database system extends the widely-accepted relational database model, enabling users to store, manage and analyze complex data such as audio, video and images in a single database with traditional text and numbers, using industry- standard structured query language (SQL). Montage Software, co-founded by Gary Morgenthaler of Morgenthaler Ventures and Dr. Michael Stonebraker of the University of California, Berkeley, represents the commercialization of the seven-year POSTGRES research project -- one of the most advanced database research projects ever undertaken. Morgenthaler is Montage Software's chairman of the board and Stonebraker serves as the company's chief technology officer. Veterans of the database market, Morgenthaler and Stonebraker co-founded Ingres Corporation (then called Relational Technology, Inc.), in 1980. The Montage object-relational database answers the considerable need in the market today to help organizations convert all the various forms of data they have created into useful information assets -- from maps and photographs to medical imaging and complex documents. "Hardware technology advances have enabled complex multimedia to be accessed readily at the desktop, but existing database products do not enable users to meaningfully utilize these new data types," Morgenthaler said. "Users do not have the ability to manage complex data types with the same facilities that are available for traditional text and numeric data. Montage provides the capability to manage all forms of data in a single database, accessible through traditional SQL." The Montage ORDBMS combines the strengths of relational and object-oriented database systems and incorporates several new advances which are totally unique.The Montage system is extensible, allowing users to define an unlimited number of new data types (such as sound, satellite photographs and CAD drawings), while also providing the services expected of a commercial-quality relational database including security, transaction control and recoverability. Additionally, developers using the Montage ORDBMS benefit from the shorter development time, software reuse and high quality results associated with object-orientation. Unique features of the Montage database include "time travel" which enables the database to be examined at a certain historical point in time, and "guaranteed delivery" which allows time-based data to be delivered at a certain rate (such as 30 frames per second for video). Database System Overview The Montage object-relational database management system includes the Montage Server database engine, the Montage Viewer -- a powerful new visualization tool that simplifies queries of complex data -- and Montage DataBlades, specialized modules that extend the capabilities of the database for specific applications. The Montage Server extends the relational database model through its ability to handle complex information and inclusion of object-oriented facilities and capabilities. Montage makes it possible to develop applications that would be difficult and expensive, if not impossible, using the mix of specialized tools currently available for different data types. Because all data types (numbers and text, plus complex data like sound, video and images) are managed the same way within the system, developing applications to use them together is far less complicated and time-consuming than with existing databases. This makes it possible to seamlessly mix many different types of traditional and non-traditional data in developing new applications. In addition, the Montage Server uses the familiar row-column metaphor for multimedia data so that text, numbers and complex data are viewed, managed, manipulated and queried the same way. SQL, a non-procedural language widely utilized in commercial database systems, is used to access and manage data. Designed for the client-server environment, the Montage Server is standards-based, and features SQL3-based extensions. Visualization Technology Enables End User Application Development The Montage Viewer uses advanced visualization technology to organize information in visual terms -- by location, shape, color and intensity, for example. Similar to a "flight simulator," the Montage Viewer allows the user to visually navigate through data, refining each step by "panning" and "zooming" with a mouse. The Viewer's powerful 5th Generation Environment (5GE) application builder offers developers and power users predefined queries that are easy to use. Icons encapsulate knowledge of data types, functions and intelligence about how data can be managed and viewed, which enables the system to automatically build applications from existing objects. "The Viewer's 5GE essentially enfranchises a whole new generation of application developers," commented Morgenthaler. Leading commercial tools specifically designed for development of client-server applications will also be available for the Montage system, including products from Unify Corporation, Uniface Corporation, and Liant Software Corporation. Montage DataBlades Enrich System Capabilities In addition to a full set of standard data types and functions, Montage features modular "DataBlades" -- similar in concept to different types of razor cartridges that can be snapped onto a razor handle -- that extend the capabilities of the database. Text, Spatial and Image DataBlades are the first of many Montage DataBlades that will comprise a full-range of industry-specific products created by Montage, third parties and users based upon their own expertise. -- The Text DataBlade expands the database's functionality by adding new data types and functions that manage text and document libraries, as well as a providing a new access method (Doc-Tree) which provides exceptional search performance for text. The Text DataBlade accepts text data from more than 30 of the most popular word processing and desktop publishing applications formats. -- The Image DataBlade supports image conversion, storage, manipulation enhancement and management of more than 50 image formats, and performs automatic conversion of formats at the user's discretion. The Image DataBlade also enables images to be combined with other data types, enhancing the value of the database. -- Points, lines, polygons and their spatial relationships are now supported in the relational model with the Spatial DataBlade. The DataBlade defines nine basic spatial types and makes over 200 SQL functions available for use on spatial data, as well as supports the R-Tree access method for high speed navigation of spatial data. The Montage object-relational database management system and DataBlades are available today. Single-user pricing for the Montage database system is $995, and DataBlades are priced at $695 each. Multiple levels of service, training and consulting are available from Montage, and are priced separately. The Montage Software Business Model Montage Software intends to challenge not only the existing database technology paradigm, but the current business paradigm of the database market, as well. The Montage ORDBMS is dramatically less expensive at both low and high volumes of licenses than the leading relational database systems. Because it uses a license manager, the Montage Server can support a customer-friendly concurrent user pricing model. Customers need only pay for licenses that are actively used. Moreover, customers are not penalized for choosing to distribute the software across multiple servers, as they are with traditional DBMS pricing. Unlike other database vendors, Montage publishes its price list to enable customers to quickly and easily determine the exact costs involved in purchasing the Montage Server, DataBlades, and related products. Headquartered in Emeryville, Calif., Montage Software, Inc., is a venture-backed company and the leading supplier of object-relational database management systems and tools for business, scientific and technical solutions. Founded in 1992, the company's investors include Morgenthaler Ventures, Roger Sippl (founder of Informix, a leading relational database company), Accel Partners, Oak Investment Group and Sequoia Capital. ### Montage, Montage Server, Montage Viewer, Montage DataBlades, and DataBlades, are trademarks of Montage Software, Inc. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59.01.B Subject: Tivoli Systems Announces New Distributed Systems Management From: Janice Brown <0003548141@mcimail.com> Contact: John Hime Tivoli Systems, Inc. (512) 794-9070 jhime@tivoli.com Contact: Janice Brown, Janice Brown and Associates, Inc. (617) 332-8066 354-8141@mcimail.com Tivoli Systems Announces New Distributed Systems Management Software, Platforms, and Customer Relationships Makes $1 Million Sales of Tivoli Management Environment to GTE Telephone Operations and Motorola Business Unit UNIX Expo, New York City, September 21 -- Tivoli Systems, Inc., of Austin, Texas, has announced a number of significant enhancements to the Tivoli Management Environment(TM) systems management software, including new tools for managing printing and electronic mail services across distributed computing environments and availability of the software for IBM RS/6000 systems. The company also announced major customer relationships with GTE Telephone Operations, a division of GTE Corp., and Motorola's General Systems Sector. Each company will purchase $1 million in Tivoli software and services over the next two years. The announcements were made at a news briefing late yesterday at the UNIX Expo Conference and Exhibition in New York City. The Tivoli Management Environment is the leading distributed systems management software shipping for multiple UNIX client/server workstations. Based on an object-oriented software framework and graphical user interfaces, Tivoli Release 1.6 provides applications that make system managers more productive and common management operations much simpler, dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of managing large, heterogeneous networks of computers. The software currently runs on UNIX workstations from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett -Packard. It will ship for IBM RS/6000 and Solaris 2.3 systems in December. "Tivoli software provides a consistent, high-level approach to systems management in distributed UNIX environments," said Frank Moss, Tivoli's president. "System administrators can handle tasks such as managing printers or adding users in the same way whether they are managing under SunOS, HP-UX, Solaris or AIX. This capability offers quantum improvements in productivity and is essential for customers managing growing UNIX networks." "We're continuing our thrust to provide customers with tools that help them simplify, eliminate, automate and delegate routine systems-management tasks. Our customers tell us that Tivoli is the only systems management vendor with a comprehensive solution that helps them get ahead on the day-to-day management tasks of their distributed environments. This is critical to the success of their client/server installations," said Moss. New Applications Capabilities Tivoli's newest application and features help system administrators tackle two of the most time-consuming, labor-intensive and critical tasks in managing a distributed system: keeping printers functioning and ensuring that users get their electronic mail. Inefficient management of these services results in service interruptions for users and the need for system administrators to drop what they are doing to troubleshoot the problems. The new capabilities are: Tivoli/Print (TM) -- an application for managing distributed printing services. Tivoli/Print provides a common, graphical interface for managing printing services running in Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX and AIX environments. Using Tivoli's point-and-click interface, system administrators can remotely and easily remove, reprioritize, check the status of or move print jobs among print queues, and reset and disable printers. A key advantage of Tivoli/Print is that it allows printer management tasks to be assign ed securely to junior staff. Senior system administrators can also establish and implement management policies that optimize printing resources and administrator time. Mail alias management -- A new feature of Tivoli/Works (TM), Tivoli's core application, mail alias management gives customers more control over the process of managing mail aliases. Mail aliases are the complex translations between the addresses in electronic mail messages and actual mail-delivery names and locations. Maintaining the mail-alias database across a distributed environment typically is a time-consuming and complex task that requires significant UNIX expertise -- the database is constantly changing and updates must be posted consistently to all machines throughout the network after each change. Tivoli software automates and simplifies the process of updating, distributing and maintaining consistency of the mail alias database across the netw ork. Major Customer Relationships GTE Telephone Operations, the largest U.S.-based local telephone company, will use the Tivoli Management Environment to manage a UNIX-based client/server network of multiple business locations across the United States performing billing, customer service, repair service, and general business applications. "Tivoli's software is an important element of our client/server strategy, because it lets us manage a highly decentralized, heterogeneous computing environment with a high degree of efficiency, consiste ncy, security and confidence," said Bill Stoeffler, UNIX service delivery director for GTE Data Services. Motorola's General Systems Sector is standardizing on the Tivoli Management Environment for managing a 5,000-seat network comprising Motorola and Sun servers and X terminals in several U.S.and European locations. "Downsizing from a centralized, proprietary mainframe to an open, client/server environment is saving us $100 million in annual computing costs," said William D. Connor, corporate vice president and director of information technology for the General Systems Sector. "Tivoli offers the only truly open approach to networked systems management. We'll be using Tivoli applications for configuration and change management, software distribution, and other tasks. But we also will be able to use applications from other vendors being developed for the Tivoli framework. The ability to easily integrate off-the-shelf software is a key component of our open-systems strategy. The Tivoli framework will do the integration for us, making Tivoli an essential part of our operations." Earlier this year, New York Telephone selected the Tivoli Management Environment as the standard for managing the computer network behind the company's NYNEX Enterprise Services Group, which provides commercial customers in the New York metropolitan area with high-performance, high-availability private managed telecommunications network services. The Enterprise Control Center uses a sophisticated distributed computer network based on more than 100 Sun SPARCstations and SPARCservers. First Distributed Systems Management Platform Tivoli software incorporates the industry's first distributed systems management platform. The Tivoli DSM platform is a set of technologies that shields customers and software developers from the low-level details of different operating systems, hardware platforms, management tasks and system resources. This platform is the basis for applications from Tivoli, independent software developers, and customers. The Tivoli Management Environment is the only distributed systems management software that offers integrated applications for distributed systems administration and distributed operations management. Customers with large networks require both types of applications and need to be able to manage them through a common user interface. Tivoli focuses on providing distributed systems administration applications -- tools that make system administrators more productive as they grapple with the end-user-driven requirements of distributed environments. Tivoli is working with third-party so ftware developers to develop distributed operations management applications, which focus on increasing the productivity of computing resources across distributed environments. These applications enable and simplify the execution of traditional systems ma nagement activities in distributed environments. Twenty independent software vendors, including LEGENT, Sybase, Inc., and AT&T CommVault Systems, are making their network and systems management applications compatible with the platform. The Tivoli DSM platform has been widely endorsed by the industry as the best approach for managing distributed, heterogeneous networks of systems. Tivoli's object-oriented framework and systems management technologies are the heart of new industry standa rds for distributed systems management, including the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Management Environment and USL's Distributed Manager. Pricing and Availability Tivoli Release 1.6 and the new mail alias management capability are available immediately for the following platforms: Sun SPARC systems and compatibles running SunOS Version 4.1.3 and HP 9000 Series 700 and Series 800 systems running HP-UX 9.0. The sof tware will be available in December 1993 for IBM RS/6000 systems running AIX 3.2.4 and Sun SPARC systems and compatibles running Solaris 2.3. Tivoli/Print will be available in December 1993 on all platforms. Pricing for Tivoli Release 1.6 for all platforms is $925 per management station and $625 per managed client. For example, Tivoli Release 1.6 for a 100-node network configured with 15 management stations and 85 managed clients would be $67,000. A manag ement station is a workstation that serves as a management console for the Tivoli software and provides comprehensive server management. A managed client provides base management functions from the management station. Tivoli Systems, Inc. A private company founded in 1989, Tivoli Systems is an industry force and the leading provider of comprehensive, standards-based software solutions for managing the distributed computer, with more than 100 major installations managing thousands of workst ations and servers. Tivoli is dedicated to supporting major industry standards affecting systems management, and actively participates in the Object Management Group, the Open Software Foundation, and UNIX International. The Tivoli Management Environment was named a product of the year by both UNIXWORLD and UNIX Review. Tivoli, Tivoli Management Environment, Tivoli/Works and Tivoli/Print are trademarks of Tivoli Systems, Inc. All other products or services mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. 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