Kimberly: that SFTW Linux product was actually announced 2-1/2 weeks ago (PR copied below) -- think that may be why there hasn't been a whole lot of price-rise today...
Vagabond
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Friday October 29, 6:02 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Enlighten Announces Release 3.4 Of EnlightenDSM For Red Hat Linux -- Launches First-Ever E-Commerce Web Site
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1999--Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFTW - news), a leading provider of event monitoring and workgroup administration for open systems, announced today that EnlightenDSM version 3.4 will be available to support Red Hat Linux version 6.0 and version 6.1. With support already established for TurboLinux, EnlightenDSM 3.4 is the leading systems management solution available for, and able to operate across, multiple Linux environments.
''Red Hat Linux is a strong market leader among Linux operating environment distributions and enjoys almost a 55% share of worldwide shipments. Red Hat shipped 1.4 million copies in 1998, and this represented over 42% growth from 1997 shipments,'' said Paul Mason, IDC's Vice President of Infrastructure Software Research. ''The Linux phenomenon is really roiling the world of operating environments. IDC has forecast the entire Linux Operating Environment market to grow at over 25% CAGR through 2003, whereas all other Server Operating Environments are forecast to grow at only 12% CAGR during this period. It is significant to see Enlighten continue to move its product delivery capability further in the direction of these key platforms for future growth.''
The EnlightenDSM version 3.4 release will be available for download from Enlighten's Web site enlightendsm.com on November 15th. For a limited time only, a single machine license of EnlightenDSM 3.4 will be available for $199.00 via this newly launched e-commerce Web site. Using a credit card, customers can purchase, download and immediately begin utilizing the power of EnlightenDSM. The easy to download and install package gets the customer up and running in minutes.
EnlightenDSM provides a single graphical interface to concurrently manage mixed environments comprised of various Linux, Unix, NT and Windows 95/98 machines. EnlightenDSM provides event monitoring which results in improved computing resource availability and workgroup administration which delivers increased productivity for systems administration professionals by simplifying complex, lengthy and repetitive tasks and consolidating views across collections of networked systems.
''With support for both Red Hat and TurboLinux, Enlighten has established platform coverage for the majority of commercial Linux distribution. Given the rapid growth in the use of Linux in a variety of Internet applications, including web servers, this presents a very attractive market for Enlighten. Further, our existing Unix and Windows users of EnlightenDSM are increasingly looking to make use of Linux, and our ability to concurrently provide support across all of these various systems further extends our value proposition,'' said Bill Bradley, Enlighten President.
About Enlighten
Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. is a provider of Unix, NT and Windows environment workgroup administration and event monitoring solutions for open systems distributed computing environments. The Company's award winning EnlightenDSM product suite provides cost-effective systems administration solutions for mixed vendor environments including Digital Unix, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SCO, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Windows NT and Windows 95 and 98. The EnlightenDSM product suite provides comprehensive functionality with unprecedented ease of installation and use. The EnlightenDSM product suite conforms with industry standard frameworks yet allows seamless integration with other vendors' point solutions. For more information, please visit the Company's web site located at enlightendsm.com
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