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NOTE: This is a draft of BANYAN's Press Release. Please exercise
care before April 26, and do not distribute externally or
to unauthorized individuals.
BANYAN'S PRESS RELEASE ON BANYAN LETTERHEAD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Siobhan Carroll
Banyan Systems
(508)898-1000
Joann Anderson
Copithorne & Bellows
(617)252-0606
Kelly Emo
Hewlett Packard
(408)447-5334
BANYAN SYSTEMS AND HEWLETT PACKARD ANNOUNCE
STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP
Banyan and Hewlett Packard to Port VINES to HP 9000 Platforms
SAN FRANCISCO, CA., April 26, 1993 - At the Association of Banyan
Users International, held here, Banyan Systems and Hewlett
Packard announced today a strategic relationship that involves
technology sharing, joint product development, network attached
printer support, technical support alliances and joint marketing.
An important aspect of the relationship will be the development
of new products to integrate Banyan's enterprise network services
with Hewlett Packard's HP-UX and PA-RISC computing platform and
to provide innovative printing solutions for Banyan customers
using HP printers.
According to James D'Arezzo, Banyan Vice President - Marketing,
"Banyan's goal is to create open environments in which enterprise
network services are available to all users, regardless of
platform or physical location. HP's leadership in RISC-based
scalable UNIX platforms, coupled with a broad range of
applications and database solutions, makes the company's
offerings a desirable choice for Banyan's customers."
Banyan's and HP's commitment to provide applications and network
services across heteroeneous enterprise-wide networks creates a
common technical direction for future networking solutions. This
strategic relationship will provide Banyan and HP customers with
solutions to integrate and easily manage the complete range of
Banyan VINES network services and HP products into enterprise
information systems. To broaden the number of supported
platforms, Banyan will continue creating similar alliances with
other industry leaders throughout this year. Banyan's network
services on HP-UX will be Banyan's first port to a RISC platform.
Products resulting from these efforts will be available before
the end of 1993.
As part of the companies' strategic relationship, Banyan has been
designated an HP Premier Solutions Partner, the highest level in
HP's Software Supplier program. This ensures that Banyan will
receive a strong degree of HP collaboration to jointly market
Banyan products.
"The result of this cooperative effort will be client-server
solutions based upon HP's PA-RISC platform and Banyan VINES
enterprise network services," said HP's Bernard Guidon, General
Manager of General Systems Division. "This is an important step
toward providing end users with the distributed-computing
solutions they need. These jointly developed products will help
fulfill our customer's needs for an open communications
environment that provides unparallel ease of use and
administration."
Leading Database Vendors Support Relationship
"Oracle has had long standing partnerships with both HP and
Banyan," said Sean Bandarkar, Oracle Corporation's Director of
Marketing, HP Division. "This announcement gives our mutual
customers more options for powerful solutions to their enterprise
network needs."
"Sybase is committed to providing open client-server solutions
than span the enterprise," commented Stu Schuster, Vice President
- Marketing, SYBASE. "We're very pleased that SYBASE/HP
customers will now have the advantage of Banyan's enterprise
network services."
Network Management Integration
Banyan and HP's Network Management Division are collaborating to
ensure that all of Banyan's support for HP products can be
managed from HP's Open View Windows and UNIX management software.
Customers using Open View will be able to use Banyan's enterprise
network management services to locate and manage other VINES
servers on the network. Customers will gain integrated network
management across their heterogeneous computing environments.
The two companies will cooperate to broaden the manageability of
Banyan and HP environments using HP's and Banyan's Network
Management Technology.
"Continental Grain runs its international business on Banyan's
enterprise network services and is making a strategic move to
client/server computing using HP's PA-RISC engines," said Hilly
Fuchs, Assistant Vice President, Continental Grain Company. "The
integration of Banyan's enterprise network services with HP-UX
creates a strategic advantage for our business by tapping the
broad scalability, outstanding performance and ease of use and
management of the resulting distributed computing platform.
Continental Grain is one of the founding members of the Network
Applications Consortium which is working with vendors to
integrate their products with VINES enterprise services."
Expanded Relationship With HP Printer Division
Banyan also announced plans today to provide support for network
attached printers. Banyan will offer a network adapter that will
work with HP's high-performance LAN-ready printers which support
HP's MIO interface. The network adapters implement the VINES
routing protocols which allow printers to be physically located
anywhere in the network. The Banyan Remote MIO printer adapter
supports Ethernet and Token Ring networks and is complemented by
a line of external printer adapters that allow non-network ready
printers to be directly attached to the LAN (see Network Printer
Support Release).
Technical Support Alliances
As part of the broadened relationship between HP and Banyan, the
two companies have signed several worldwide Technical Support
Alliances. These TSA's will ensure that customers using products
from both companies in their networks will be able to receive
technical support from either company. One such TSA focuses on
support for customers running Banyan services in an HP
environment. Another TSA includes a working agreement with HP's
printer division to handle support requests across all product
lines as well as an agreement to support certified platforms from
the PC division running VINES. The European TSA allows for the
two companies to collaborate closely by, among other things,
twice yearly intensive training in each others products.
Certification Programs
Hewlett Packard has been a participant in Banyan's Platorm
Certification Program since 1990. Since joining, HP has
certified over 34 configurations. HP was the first vendor to
certify a SCSI disk/tape subsystem independent of the Platform
Certification Program. Currently, Banyan and HP are working on
other programs which will enhance the product offerings of both
companies.
Banyan recently announced support for HP's 100mbs Ethernet
proposal and plans to continue working closely with HP to ensure
that VINES is compatible with HP's proposal should it become a
standard.
Industry Reaction Positive
"At Saros, we have built our product line around a philosophy and
architecture based on openness and interoperability," said Wayne
Carpenter, President and CEO, Saros Corporation. "We think the
Banyan/Hewlett Packard relationship is a strong signal that
heterogeneous networks are becoming increasingly integrated.
This is what customers want and need to meet the demands they
face as they link thousands of PC users together across the
enterprise. Banyan and HP are answering this challenge,
providing an integrated platform that supports a wider variety of
enterprise networking applications in more native environments."
John Howman, President - Allied Computer Group said, "At Allied
Computer Group we have a number of customers who are running UNIX
systems and who would greatly benefit from the services that
Banyan provides. This relationship between Banyan and HP will
simplify the lives of customers already running VINES on an Intel
platform with UNIX systems. They will now have the option of
eliminating one server and simplifying their environments. We
enthusiastically support this relationship between Banyan and
HP."
According to Sietse Brouwer, IS Manager, Dutch Rail Division of
Infrastructure, "Within the decentraalized Infrastructure
Division of Dutch Rail we are funding our business applications
on a country-wide Banyan WAN comprising eighty servers. We are
very pleased with the Banyan HP alliance which will provide us
with high performance database servers and will enable us to
further integrate CAD applications with our business
applications. All of this while retaining the flexibility and
manageability of VINES."