Darmstadt, Germany, 29 April 1999 – Software AG will make
available its product offering for electronic business for Linux
also. A fully functional demo version of each of these products
will be available free of charge from Software AG’s homepage.
Software AG will support the marketplace trend by doing so and make
Linux available as a system platform for electronic business
applications. The first product, Bolero Application Server for
Linux, will be available shortly. Additional products will follow
in the course of this year.
More and more companies are using Linux-based systems or
planning their implementation. However, these are generally limited
to isolated applications like Web servers or E-mail services.
Mission-critical electronic business applications are left by the
wayside, because until now there have not been any robust
development and runtime environments or hardly any database servers
available for Linux. But Linux is a scalable, stable and secure
system that is no longer behind other flavors of Unix and Windows
NT. It is particularly appropriate as an economical platform for
mission-critical applications for electronic business.
According to the market research firm IDC, in 1998 the Linux
server market grew by 212 percent over 1997. That means Linux
accounts for 17 percent of all operating systems sold for servers.
Step by step, Software AG, one of the largest software companies in
the world, is now also making available the advantages of its
mission-critical product suite for electronic business for the
Linux platform: Bolero, the Application Factory for Electronic
Business, is a completely new, object-oriented development and
integration environment for electronic business applications on the
Java platform. Bolero is one of the first systems on the market to
create mission-critical, transaction-oriented applications over the
Web. Initially, Bolero Application Server will be available for
Linux. That will allow
Bolero applications developed with Windows NT to be used on the
Linux platform. Bolero Component Studio will follow in the course
of 1999. Then it will be possible to develop and run Bolero
applications entirely on the Linux platform.
EntireX DCOM, component-based middleware, supports the seamless
integration of transaction-oriented applications across
heterogeneous platforms, from the mainframe to Unix, Linux and
Windows NT to the Web. That allows Bolero applications to be
integrated into enterprisewide systems. EntireX DCOM is available
for Linux. It can be obtained free of charge from Software AG’s
homepage.
Tamino, the world’s first Information Server for Electronic
Business, stores XML information in its natural structure —
without inefficient transformations into other structures like SQL
— and makes it available for high-performance transaction-oriented
electronic business applications on the Web. Tamino will initially
ship in the fourth quarter of 1999 for Windows NT, a Linux version
will follow.
“This product suite for electronic business will allow Linux
users to develop and run mission-critical applications and
integrate them seamlessly with enterprisewide systems,” explains
Dr. Erwin Königs, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Software AG
in Darmstadt. “This unique suite of products will make Software AG
the forerunner in the Linux market segment. For the first time,
companies will be able to use Linux as a strategic enterprise
platform for mission-critical electronic business
applications.”
“Among the SQL databases for Linux, Adabas D is the uncontested
market leader thanks to its robust nature and its convincing
price/performance ratio,” says Roland Dyroff, CEO of the leading
European Linux system company SuSE GmbH in Nuremberg. “By porting
Bolero, Software AG again underscores the importance of Linux as a
platform for mission-critical applications and provides an
important contribution toward assuring Linux is the industry
standard of the future.”
Availability: The application factory Bolero is available on
Windows NT, Unix and OS/390. In the third quarter of 1999, Bolero
Application Server will be ready for Linux. Bolero Component Studio
will follow in the course of the year. Tamino will ship in fall of
1999 for Windows NT, then follow for Linux, Unix and OS/390.
EntireX DCOM for Linux is already available free of charge over the
Web at www.softwareag.com/corporat/solutions/entirex/linux.
Bolero and Tamino will also be available for free for
non-commercial uses. For commercial use the prices are based on
versions for Windows NT and Unix.
Notes to editors
Software AG, based in Darmstadt, Germany, is Europe’s largest
producer of system software and one of the world’s leading
suppliers in this sector. Software AG will extend this position
into the rapidly growing electronic business market. The company
has more than 2,300 employees and 74 offices in over 60 countries.
Its customers are mainly large and medium-sized enterprises,
covering the market sectors of banking, insurance, transport,
manufacturing industry and public administration.
In the first quarter of 1999, Software AG Group revenues were DM
157.5 million, an increase of 13.2% over the same period of the
previous year. Profit before tax increased exceptionally strongly,
rising 55.5% to DM 21.3 million. In 1998, group revenues were DM
626.4 million (+9%) and profit before tax was DM 87.3 million
(+35%). As of 26 April 1999, Software AG is listed at the stock
exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, (Amtlicher Handel) and has applied
for the M-Dax index.
Software AG is a market leader in the field of integration
technology. The company’s products and services support the
seamless integration of transaction-oriented business applications
across heterogeneous platforms, ranging from IBM OS/390 and Siemens
BS2000 mainframes, OpenVMS, AS/400, Unix and Windows NT to the Web.
Software AG’s technology focuses on three main areas: Online
Transaction Processing (Adabas database management systems and
Natural tools for the development of commercial applications),
Enterprise Application Integration (EntireX) and Electronic
Business (Bolero, an application factory and Tamino, an information
server).
Further Information:
Wolf-Rüdiger Hansen Michael Rufer
Corporate Communications
Director IT Press PR-Consultant
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