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SGI to sell EMC storage locally

Following a worldwide agreement for Silicon Graphics to resell EMC`s Symmetrix storage subsystems and software, the duo`s SA subsidiaries have agreed to work more closely in the local market. John Jordaan, manager channel & partner sales at EMC SA, says the arrangement gives further impetus to EMC`s push into the high-end UNIX market.

EMC Southern Africa

USKO - Dynamic company on the move

USKO said it has formed USKO Software Group to consolidate software operations revolving around former Mike Bergen and Associates (MBA). The new company will include all brands previously handled by MBA, such as Viasoft, AutoTester, Serena, Sterling Software, Sterling Commerce, MJ Retailer, BusinessObjects and a new division called Project Dynamix. Managing Director of the USKO Software Group will be Howard Hamilton, previously sales director of Compuware.

Bytes Technology Group

Arbor 5 gets top marks from OLAP Report

Arbor Essbase OLAP Server 5 has earned the highest total score of all OLAP products in the latest edition of The OLAP Report, published by Business Intelligence, leaving behind Hyperion, MicroStrategy, Oracle and SAS.

BusinessObjects

Business Objects to talk to Plato

Business Objects announced the beta interface between its BusinessObjects query, reporting and analysis tool, and Microsoft`s online analytical processing (OLAP) server, code named Plato.

Bytes Technology Group

Bateleur Software webs mainframes

Bateleur Software said it has introduced an innovative software product that allows corporations to Web-enable any IBM mainframe application without changing the current legacy system.

Arbor Essbase obliterates all OLAP records

Arbor said its Arbor Essbase completed the entire OLAP benchmark in just 49 minutes. Oracle Express was six times slower, requiring four hours and 54 minutes to finish the benchmark.

DSS Broadcaster

Microstrategy continues on visionary path

MicroStrategy, a relational OLAP industry pioneer, said it is currently engaged in development of Query Tone, a new concept which combines the potential of the World Wide Web, data warehousing and decision support systems. MicroStrategy, represented locally by SPL, said Query Tone would enable the average user to obtain information previously accessible only to the top management of Global 2000 companies. The technology would allow users to get an answer to any query against any data located anywhere in the world, MicroStrategy said.

Unisys SA announced Network Storage Server

Unisys SA has announced the PrimeStor Network Attached Storage Server (NAS2000) that`s is said to brings enterprise-class storage features and functionality to the network marketplace.

Baan meets Year 2000 challenge

The Year 2000 will not cause accounting, inventory or other data-related problems for Baan customers, Baan said in a statement. Baan, an enterprise business resource planning (ERP) vendor, said all its products from Triton III onward are year 2000 compliant. Baan`s users are not required to purchase additional software products or newer releases to solve year 2000 issues. The small percentage of customers using Triton II or earlier versions need to do a minor upgrade at no cost, Baan said.

16-bit EXTRA! for Windows Y2K ready

Attachmate has announced EXTRA! for Windows 5.1, a 16-bit host access client for Windows 3.x. The product runs on 32-bit Windows 95 platform as well, assuring customers that they can migrate one step at a time.

New Dimension Software

New Dimension boosts support for OS/390

New Dimension Software, represented locally by Software Futures, has announced enhanced support for IBM`s newest large-system operating system, OS/390 Release 5.

Software Futures

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