| Gene..
as an ex-Andersen type, I suggest you be slightly careful here....
please mail me offline. You (we) could get tied up doing all the brain
stuff, and they get all the $$..
Send them the latest Polycenter Solutions Guide. If they have
difficulty reading the Fullsail (and others) sections, then we are in deep
sneakers. (is this correct US phrase?).
BTW - they (Andersen) have a whole bunch of people who are (supposed)
to be looking at this stuff anyway, to 'qualify' for their huge
discounts on Digital kit.
Rgds,
Adrian
[been there, done it, had my T-shirt burnt.. watch your T-shirt.. !]
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| DIGITAL AND COMPUWARE ANNOUNCE ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AVAILABLE FOR
DIGITAL UNIX
Close Partnership Yields Enterprise Application and System Management
Solution for Digital UNIX Customers
Sarah Cardella Andy Pool
Compuware Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation
408 399 1381 508 264-5246 sarah_cardella@compuware
[email protected]
Farmington Hills, MI - Digital Equipment Corporation and Compuware
Corporation today announced a marketing and technical alliance that brings
the EcoTOOLS enterprise systems management solution to the Digital UNIX
platform and Alpha workstations.
The alliance offers Digital UNIX customers in-depth systems management
capabilities and a single point of control for managing client/server
applications. With EcoTOOLS, Digital UNIX customers can diagnose, prevent,
and correct application performance problems or failures for optimized
enterprise system performance and availability. The Digital and Compuware
alliance is a marketing and technology relationship that benefits the two
companies' respective customer bases. The companies will jointly implement
customer seminars, training, and conferences to highlight the use of
EcoTOOLS on Digital Alpha systems.
"Compuware's EcoTOOLS allows Digital UNIX customers to achieve the highest
levels of control and availability for their mission-critical
applications," said Don Harbert, vice president, UNIX Business Segment at
Digital Equipment Corp. "Administrators dealing with the complexities of
mixed environments can achieve optimum performance and increased
availability. Adding EcoTOOLS support for the Digital UNIX platform and
high-performance Alpha workstations represents a significant breakthrough
in providing "mainframe-class" solutions for client/server environments."
"Compuware recognizes the Digital UNIX platform as one of the fastest
growing platforms in the world. To accommodate this demand, Compuware has
partnered with Digital to deliver EcoTOOLS for this expanding segment of
the UNIX market," said Ron Gleason, general manager of Compuware EcoTOOLS.
"By working closely together, this partnership has yielded a fully
optimized version of EcoTOOLS--thus providing unprecedented levels of
efficiency, robustness, and scalability for our common customers."
About EcoTOOLS for Digital UNIX
EcoTOOLS for Digital UNIX enables database and system administrators to
monitor their client/server applications; Oracle, Sybase and Informix
databases; UNIX operating systems and networks for fault and performance
problems. EcoTOOLS dispatches autonomous software "agents" to gather
enterprise-wide performance and configuration information, alert system
administrators to potential problems and then automatically launch
proactive corrective actions. In addition to detailed troubleshooting
capabilities, EcoTOOLS also provides robust console management, graphical
real-time and historical management reporting and security monitoring.
EcoTOOLS provides a deep set of monitoring agents with extensive monitoring
and analysis intelligence for the Digital UNIX environment. Administrators
can choose from a set of pre-packaged management scenarios (including
pre-set corrective actions) to quickly and easily diagnose and correct
problems in their computing systems with little or no set-up time.
EcoTOOLS also features a resource accounting option called EcoCHARGEBACK.
EcoCHARGEBACK allows users to account for system and database resources by
application, track inefficient resource users, and help determine future
system requirements.
Pricing and Availability
EcoTOOLS for Digital UNIX is available today and supports the monitoring
and management of Oracle, Sybase and Informix applications. EcoTOOLS
pricing begins at $23,000 and is based on system configuration.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital offers a full line of powerful 64-bit AlphaStation workstations
ranging in price from $5,000 to $50,000. The family includes three
AlphaStation 200 systems for economy, balance and power; the AlphaStation
250 workstation, the fastest workstation for scientific and engineering
projects; and two AlphaStation 600 systems, the world's fastest
workstations. The combination of raw processing power and price/performance
represent a new superpower in workstation computing.
Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions, from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scaleable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software
and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business
partners, help organization compete and win in today's global marketplace.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) is a leading worldwide provider of
software products and professional services that help information
technology professionals efficiently develop, implement, and support the
applications that run their businesses. Founded in 1973, Compuware today
ranks as one of the 15 largest independent software vendors in the world.
The company's products have been licensed by more than 8,000 organizations
worldwide. Revenues for fiscal 1995 totaled $534 million.
# # #
EcoTOOLS is a registered trademark of Compuware Corporation. Digital and
Alpha are registered trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. UNIX is a
registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed
exclusively through X/Open Company, Ltd. All other product or company
names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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