The Partnership: Unify and IBM's OS/2 Finding cross-platform tools for developing, deploying and managing high-end scalable applications is not an easy task, considering the array of multi-platform desktop and server environments in today's organizations. It's important to choose software tools that protect your existing investments and scale with your organization. That's why IBM and Unify have entered into an agreement to add IBM OS/2 to the many client and server platforms supported by Unify VISION, an advanced client/server application development environment. IBM's OS/2 Warp Server provides comprehensive networked services to the entire organization, as it works with just about every server and client on the market. And with VISION, developers can write high-end, scalable, mission critical applications on all major open system platforms with the most productive, flexible and easy-to-use rapid application development technology.
" Overall, VISION is a vision of simplistic efficiency. You can create complex applications in a short period of timethe applications partitioning capabilities make VISION a scalable solution for high-volume, enterprise-wide environment."	The Advantage As distributed environments become increasingly complex, it also becomes more challenging to effectively manage heterogeneous client/server applications. IBMs OS/2 Warp server sets a strong foundation for full-featured, enterprise-wide network and systems integration, and management, while Unify VISION provides management at the application level including: event and performance management, software distribution, administration, security, and software licensing/asset management. VISION automates the process of building managed applications and integrates them with the leading software distribution, event and performance management systems.
C/S Developer DBMS Magazine, October 1995
" VISION provides customers with the scalable, versatile tool they need for building and managing distributed client/server applications across the enterprise "	In addition, VISION's complete binary portability among GUIs, operating systems, and RDBMS platforms, enables developers to develop anywhere and deploy including OS/without any porting or recompiling. And VISION automatically handles query-by-form, insert, update, delete, master/detail relationships, and transaction control for each database, generating optimized SQL for each brand of DBMS accessed at runtime.
John Schwarz Vice President of Marketing IBM Personal Software Products Division
Benefits Reduce business costs through systems and application management. Increase employee productivity by putting needed resources like files, printers, peripherals, and applications right at employees fingertips. Develop and deploy anywhere and everywhere with no recompile. Protect crucial information through OS/2s industrial strength features like crash protection, backup and recovery, and security services. Overcome system downtime, budget overruns, and production failures.	Unify VISION, combined with the integrated system and network management capabilities of IBM's OS/2 Warp Server, provide a very powerful, robust application server solution. VISION automatically handles query-by-form, insert, update, delete, master/detail relationships, and transaction control for each database, generating optimized SQL for each brand of DBMS accessed at runtime. IBM OS/2: THE COMPLETE APPLICATION SERVER SOLUTION FOR ANY SIZE BUSINESS With the networking and systems management services integrated with OS/2 Warp Server, including resource sharing, backup and recovery, remote connection, advanced printing and security, OS/2 can help you increase the productivity of your employees, reduce the cost of managing your client/server network, protect your critical business information and give you absolute control over your information assets.