SPI, the African distributor for UK-based-Open Systems Management (OSM), today announced the availability of the latter's batch job scheduling software, COSbatch V3.1.3.
This new release offers existing and new users of COSbatch a significantly enhanced version of the software which is used for the scheduling of background processes in a mixed Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows environment.
"Release V3.1.3 gives our existing customers a significantly enhanced, enterprise quality job scheduler with what we believe to be the most intuitive look and feel of any software in our target market through its new user interface that was developed using Java Swing,” commented Neil Chaney, CEO of Open Systems Management. “The new release also incorporates a number of improvements in the underlying infrastructure.”
"The driving force behind the release is OSM's belief that software companies must help drive down the cost of software ownership for mid- to large-scale organisations,” continued Chaney. “In conjunction with the aggressive, subscription-based pricing options for v3.1.3 of COSbatch, we offer free online training and online technical assistance with installation and configuration."
The new software incorporates a large number of 'under the hood' enhancements, including improvements that will increase reliability, security, speed and scalability. There has also been a major reworking of the Calendaring functions, so that any possible combination of dates and times can now be easily configured. Calendars may also be set for multiple time zones.
The most noticeable changes are those to the user interface, however. The user interfaces in V2.4 and V2.5 of COSbatch included X Windows, curses (green screen), a native Microsoft Windows user interface and a Web browser based interface. OSM now offers a fully integrated GUI based on Java Swing. The new interface is mapped to a Java API which sits on top of a SOAP layer allowing the new Client to be used over the Internet.
"The new user interface is the most noticeable feature of this release. It offers all the functionality that we have been asked to provide, including resizable windows which can be anchored anywhere within the Swing framework, drag and drop capabilities, graphical calendaring, and timeline projections. We fully expect to increase our market share as a result," concluded Chaney.
Open Systems Management (OSM) - a privately held company with venture capital backing, founded in 1988 and based out of Wokingham, UK; Seattle, WA, USA; and Perth in Western Australia - develops and markets low-cost, high quality systems and IT operations management software for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. The software is supported worldwide out of offices in Perth, the UK and Seattle, WA, USA.
For further information, please contact Chris Anderson at tel. +27 11 234 1560; fax +27 11 234 1387; e-mail chris@spi.co.za
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SPI is a company that provides utility software products and services to the Open Systems segment of the IT industry. It is the sole sub-Saharan Africa distributor for US-based FacetCorp; US-based Innovative Routines; UK-based-Open Systems Management; US-based Bottomline Technologies; UK-based Xi Software. SPI is also the sales agent for UK-based Metron and develops some of its own software utilities to complement the overseas products that it distributes.
SPI has a wide and varied customer base that includes organisations such as Aspen Pharmacare, Johannesburg Municipality, Johannesburg University, Metropolitan Health Group, Nampak, National Brands, Stellenbosch University, UCT and Unisa.
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