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For Immediate Release
For more information, contact : Daja Phillips.
UNIFY BECOMES ONLY SECOND-GENERATION TOOLS VENDOR TO SPAN ALL MAJOR OPEN
SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTS WITH NEW OS/2 , NATIVE DB2 SUPPORT
Contacts
Ellen Urgell Daja Phillips.
UpStart Communications Unify Corp.
(510) 420-7975 (408) 467-4533
eurgell@upstart.com daja@unify.com
[02/23/96]
UNIFY BECOMES ONLY SECOND-GENERATION TOOLS VENDOR TO SPAN ALL MAJOR OPEN
SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTS WITH NEW OS/2 , NATIVE DB2 SUPPORT
VISION and Unify's integrated application management product AppMan for
VISION --support IBM strategies for interoperability and management
SAN JOSE, Calif., February 23, 1996 -
Unify Corporation, a leading provider of advanced, three-tier application
development tools, today announced an agreement with IBM to support Unify
VISION and AppMan for VISION on OS/2, and to provide native DB2 support for
both the OS/2 and AIX platforms, extending Unify VISION's leadership in
native support of RDBMS platforms. With this announcement, Unify VISION
becomes the only second-generation tool that supports the development and
management of cross-platform, cross-database applications that span all
major open systems environments and scale from the department to the
enterprise.
In addition to OS/2, Unify VISION and AppMan for VISION currently support
AIX, Sun Solaris, DEC-Alpha, HP-UX, Windows NT, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and
Macintosh. Existing VISION-based applications developed for these platforms
will now run on OS/2 without being recompiled. Unify will also enable
access to existing mainframe/host databases such as DB2 for MVS, DB2 for
AS/400 and DB2 for HP-UX through support of DRDA (distributed relational
database architecture).
According to Scott Canali, vice president of marketing at Unify, the
announcement is a boon to both current OS/2 and VISION customers, as well as
to companies looking for an industrial-strength development tool that will
not limit their choice of platforms. "IBM and Unify are delivering on
customer requirements for scalability, cross platform interoperability, and
application management," said Canali. "With Unify VISION and AppMan for
VISION, developers now have an outstanding environment for building and
managing client/server applications that can run without porting or
recompiling on all major open system platforms."
Management and interoperability key IBM goals supported by Unify
AppMan for VISION is the first product to automate the process of building
managed, enterprise applications and integrating them with leading software
distribution, and event and performance management systems such as BMC
Patrol, IBM SystemView, Tivoli AMS, HP OpenView, and Microsoft SMS.
"By developing for OS/2 Warp and OS/2 Warp Server, Unify is exploiting the
broad function and incredible power of OS/2 to deliver real value to their
customers," said John Schwarz, vice president of marketing, IBM Personal
Software Products division. "VISION provides customers with the scaleable,
versatile tool they need for building and managing distributed client/server
applications across the enterprise. Unify's investment in developing VISION
for OS/2 is a strong testament to their belief in the IBM strategy to
provide seamless solutions across the enterprise, from the mainframe to the
desktop."
Pricing and availability
Each VISION development kit costs $4,995. VISION for OS/2 v 3.0 will be
entering beta soon with general availability in Q396, and will include
native connectivity to DB2 on OS/2 and AIX, DRDA direct client-to-mainframe
connection, and access to mainframe data through an intermediate server
running either DB2 or DDCS/DRDA. Unify AppMan for VISION is priced at
$1,995 for unlimited users, per operating system, per site and will be
available on OS/2 at the same time.
About Unify Corp.
Unify is a leading provider of advanced second-generation application
development tools for building and managing enterprise applications.
Unify s flagship product, Unify VISION , combines the flexibility and
ease-of use of graphical client/server with the capability and performance
requirements of enterprise-level applications. VISION provides an automated
graphical rapid application development environment, advanced application
partitioning, and integrated application management capabilities.
Headquartered in San Jose, California, Unify has direct sales offices
throughout North America, Europe, and Japan, with a network of distributors,
VARs, OEMs and systems integrators worldwide. Unify s products include
Unify VISION, ACCELL/SQL , and Unify DataServer family of products. Unify
has over 350,000 users worldwide, including leaders in telecommunications,
financial services, commercial industries, and government.
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