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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BANYAN SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY CHOSEN FOR
OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION'S NETWORK MANAGEMENT STANDARD
WESTBORO, Mass., September 17, 1991 - Banyan Systems today
announced that its network management technology has been selected
for inclusion in the Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed
Management Environment (DME), a framework for providing a standard
method for managing networks and distributed applications across
multiple vendors' computer systems.
Banyan's Network Logger, developed by Wang Laboratories, is among
the key technologies announced today by the OSF as components of
DME. The Network Logger performs event management and logging,
alerts, alarms, as well as auditing and reporting functions,
enabling software on UNIX and DOS platforms to log events in a
consistent format.
"Making enterprise-wide networks easier to use and manage has been
the hallmark of Banyan VINES since its introduction. The Network
Logger technology was developed by Wang to meet the needs of
distributed network management and security in the large
heterogeneous environments of Banyan VINES networks," said David C.
Mahoney, president and CEO of Banyan Systems. "Contributing
Network Logger technology as part of a broad industry effort to
provide truly open systems will produce substantial benefits
for VINES users, for Banyan, for Wang, and for other OSF member
companies." The Network Logger technology will be integrated into
the Banyan VINES suite of network management capabilities, and
Banyan will extend and enhance the Network Logger technology
through close working relationships with the OSF and member
companies. These efforts will increase the sophistication of
network management solutions available at an industry-wide level.
In addition, future development and integration of other OSF
DME components will allow third party developers to take advantage
of an industry standard application environment.
The DME is designed to support a consistent network management
approach by defining a uniform user interface and the standard
applications that control common management services such as print
spooling, distributed backup, performance monitoring and software
installation and licensing. DME also specifies consistent methods
for defining devices on the network.
There is a close and complementary fit between DME, the Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE) released today by the OSF and endorsed
by Banyan, and Banyan VINES. Where OSF technologies define network
services, distributed applications and network management for an
open UNIX environment, VINES provides many similar features for a
variety of DOS, OS/2, Windows and Macintosh clients at the desktop.
"DME provides a framework for managing applications across network
systems from multiple vendors. DME and DCE together bring the
establishment and maintenance of open systems closer to reality,
and we are excited that industry leaders such as Banyan and Wang
have contributed technology to the emerging standard," said David
Tory, President, OSF.
Through its membership in OSF, its endorsement of DCE and its
contribution to DME, Banyan will ensure its customers and
developers of compatibility and interoperability between the OSF
and Banyan VINES environments. This protects the investments that
applications developers and customers have in their current
systems, and greatly expands the functionality of these systems.
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About the Open Software Foundation
The Open Software Foundation is a non-profit research and
development organization developing an delivering an open software
environment based on standards for the benefit of the information
processing industry. OSF uses an innovative open process,
soliciting technologies from the industry at large and invites
member participation in setting technical direction for the
Foundation's efforts. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, the OSF has
260 employees in locations around the world.