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BGS To Provide Sun Enterprise Management Solution Support in Release 4 of BEST/1 for UNIX

Strategic Alliance Spurs Development Effort

BGS Systems, Inc. (Waltham, MA) announced today that Release 4 of BEST/1 Performance Assurance for UNIX will include support for users of SunSoft Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.1 operating systems and interface with Solstice SunNet Manager.

"Sun is a leader in providing Enterprise Management Solutions," said Bryan D. Quickmire, Vice President of BGS. "We are pleased to be part of the Sun strategy to bring the best of the system management solutions to the commercial client/server market. Many of our customers are implementing distributed client/server business applications using Sun platforms. They asked us to develop BEST/1 Performance Assurance solutions to support their efforts. Being a Solutions Partner of Sun has helped us to provide this service."

The partnership combines hardware and technical support form Sun with the capacity and performance management skills of BGS. It has been key to the successful development effort.

BEST/1 Performance Assurance for UNIX includes centralized capacity and performance management of distributed Solaris and SunOS nodes, creating multi-node client/server perspectives. Capabilities include a real-time monitor for intelligent alerts and displays, a performance database with unique visualization facilities, and a what-it modeling component for predicting the impact of configuration and workload changes. In addition to Sun, BEST/1 for UNIX operates on a wide variety of UNIX variants including IBM, HP, and others and includes integrated support for RDBMS such as Oracle and Sybase.

Performance Assurance is a framework from BGS for centrally managing performance and capacity of heterogeneous distributed computing environments. Performance Assurance is a process supported by integrated BEST/1 product families covering UNIX, MVS, VM, OS/400, OpenVMS, OS/2 and Windows NT as well as Local Area Networks. For more information contact:

Mike Toomey
BGS Systems, Inc.
128 Technology Center
Waltham MA 02254
(617) 891-0000