Contact: OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203 Toll Free: 1-800-TRY-OPEN Phone: 1-303-861-4411 Fax: 1-303-861-2393 E-mail: info@opensource.com WWW: http://www.opensource.com OpenSource Announces Special on DDS (DAT) Back-up Bundle for NEXTSTEP DENVER, COLORADO - 01/04/96. OpenSource, Inc. today announced special pricing for a hardware/software DDS tape backup package for use with NEXTSTEP. The package consists of a Hewlett Packard 2-4GB external DDS drive and SafetyNet software from Systemix. Winner of Best-of-Breed and a Four-and-a-Half Cube rating from NeXTWorld, SafetyNet by Systemix Software is the premiere back-up solution for NEXTSTEP. Available in a Personal version for stand-alone machines and a Pro version for client/server networks, SafetyNet provides a host of functions and utilities to make backing-up your NEXTSTEP data a simple and reliable automated process. According to Chris Miner, Technical Director for OpenSource, "SafetyNet Pro is the solution for backing up a NEXTSTEP network. With its intuitive browser, file restoration is a snap. It provides incremental backups on an automated basis and supports multiple volumes. We've been using it here at OpenSource for over a year, and it has performed flawlessly." The HP DDS drive featured for this promotion incorporates built-in hardware data compression (DDS-DC), which provides extra capacity and minimizes CPU utilization, giving excellent performance. A sustainable transfer rate of 366 KB/s means that the HP can typically store 4 GB of data on a single 90 meter cartridge in three hours. Read after write verification ensures a high level of data integrity. The OpenSource Back-Up Bundle comes complete with SCSI cable and terminator, and is available in the following configurations: Stand-Alone Machine HP External 2-4 GB DDS drive / SafetyNet Personal $1,095 HP External 2-4 GB DDS drive / SafetyNet Personal (Educational) $1,045 Client/Server Network HP External 2-4 GB DDS drive / SafetyNet Professional $1,295 HP External 2-4 GB DDS drive / SafetyNet Professional (Edu) $1,195 This offer is good until January 31, 1996 and can not be used with any other specials or discounts. ----- SafetyNet (TM) Fast Backup and Restore for Networks of NEXTSTEP computers SafetyNet is a powerful backup and archiving application for computers running the NEXTSTEP operating system. SafetyNet provides sophisticated backup and restore capabilities with point and click simplicity. SafetyNet saves files into archives, maintaining an on-line catalog of each archive's contents that allows you to browse it as easily as you would your hard disk. For each file in the archive the catalog contains its name as well as information about its status (such as its last modification date, owner, etc) and, more importantly, the file's location in the archive. SafetyNet can retrieve a file in seconds rather than hours by moving to its precise location in the archive. This high-speed seeking capability is supported by DAT, on-line, and some 8mm devices. SafetyNet gives you complete control over file selection allowing any combination of files and directories to be selected for backup. You can restrict backups to include only those files modified later than some date and time, or since a selected profile was last executed, providing for incremental backups. Commonly used backup selections may be saved as SafetyNet backup Profiles which may be launched from the Workspace Manager or scheduled for later, unattended, execution. SafetyNet is available in both Professional and Personal versions. With SafetyNet Professional you can backup any mounted UNIX file system (local or NFS). SafetyNet Personal will backup any locally mounted UNIX file systems. SafetyNet Features 4 Fast, easy to use point-and-click interface 4 Full or incremental backups 4 Unattended scheduled backups 4 Drag'n'Drop Backup Scheduler 4 Compression 4 Extensive user control of file selections 4 Backup of remote NFS mounted file systems with SafetyNet-Profel 4 On-line database and sophisticated device management provide rapid access to archived files 4 Intelligently reconstructs directory contents from incrementals 4 Smart link management allows you to restore a file from any of its link names 4 Unlimited pathname length 4 Multi-volume support allows you to have archives of virtually unlimited size 4 Labeled media prevents accidental use of the wrong volume 4 Integrated support for a wide variety of devices, including: DAT(All models) 8mm (Exabyte 8500 and 8200 derivatives) On-line Disk 4 Third party support for any device with the optional Device Integrator's Kit 4 Extensive on-line help 4 Four cube rating by NeXTWORLD Magazine (Fall 1992) 4 NeXTWORLD Magazine Best of Breed Award recipient (Spring 1993) ### Systemix Software, Inc. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Systemix develops the award winning SafetyNet back-up applications for NEXTSTEP. OpenSource, Inc. OpenSource is a single-source reseller of third-party applications and pre-configured hardware for the NEXTSTEP operating system. Dedicated to prompt service and quality support, OpenSource offers the most extensive line of NEXTSTEP related products in the industry. OpenSource is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. _____________________________________________________________________ NeXT and NEXTSTEP are trademarks of NeXT, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their respective holders.