[774] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
PR: Open Horizons support for IBM DSS, Warp Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Thibideau)
Sun Mar 3 22:08:49 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 3 Mar 1996 15:14:48 GMT
From: alt@pipeline.com (Alan Thibideau)
Reply-To: becky@nrh.com
Reply-To: becky@nrh.com
Submitted by: alt@pipeline.com (Alan Thibideau)
Source: PR
---------------------------------------------------------------------
OPEN HORIZON ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR IBM DIRECTORY & SECURITY SERVICES FOR
OS/2 WARP SERVER
Solution Enables Desktop Applications with Transparent Support for IBM
Services
BELMONT, Calif., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Open Horizon today announced the
immediate availability of its flagship product, Connection, with support for
IBM's Distributed & Security Services (DSS) for OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 and OS/2
Warp Server. With the integrated solution, customers can enhance their
client/server applications, such as Delphi, Visual Basic, PeopleSoft and Java,
with the benefits of user authentication, data privacy, data integrity,
database single sign-on and location transparency -- without any changes
required to the application.
In addition, traditional 2-tier applications requiring access to middle-tier
business logic can be integrated with IBM's DSS. This middle- tier business
logic includes transactions developed using CICS, TUXEDO, Encina and TOP END;
application servers generated using Forte and Dynasty development tools; and
legacy applications developed in C, C++, and COBOL.
Support for IBM's DSS enhances Open Horizon's leadership position in the
middleware market for integrating client/server applications with
mainframe-quality services.
"Our customers are looking for integrated services across all their platforms
to enable true enterprise client/server," said Art Olbert, director of product
plan management of IBM Personal Software Products. "With Open Horizon's
Connection, our customers can realize the benefits of DSS with their existing
client/server applications, without modifying a single line of code. The
solution offers customers an immediate and tangible return on investment."
"By supporting IBM's DSS for OS/2 Warp Server, Open Horizon is furthering its
commitment to Global 2000 customers to provide true enterprise client/server
solutions," said Nicholas Zaldastani, president and CEO of Open Horizon. "Our
objective is to help customers leverage client/server computing for strategic
applications by enabling transparent support for mainframe-quality services."
IBM's Directory & Security Services (DSS)
DSS provides a single, logical network view of users on OS/2, Windows 3.x,
Windows NT, Windows 95, and DOS file and print client systems, as well as
DCE-based client machines. Through this global view, administrators can make
multi-platform user modifications such as changes to user passwords, thereby
protecting customers' current investments.
DSS allows users to easily and securely access distributed network resources
on an OS/2 Warp Server network. DSS integrates LAN Server 4.0 file and print
sharing capabilities with open, scalable networking features based on
industry-standard technology from Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed
Computing Environment (DCE) Version 1.1.
Open Horizon's Connection
The Connection base product is composed of client and server software
components which serve as a communications foundation between heterogeneous
platforms. Connection Client supports Windows 3.1, Windows NT, AIX, Solaris,
and HP/UX. Future platforms include support for Macintosh, Windows 95, and
other flavors of UNIX. Connection Server runs on Windows NT, Solaris, AIX,
HP/UX, and AT&T MP-RAS. Porting is currently underway to other UNIX platforms
and MVS. Connection can be used with all of the major network protocols
supported by DCE including TCP/IP, UDP/IP and SPX/IX.
In addition to connecting heterogeneous platforms, Connection enables
client/server applications with transparent integration of mainframe-quality
services through its Enterprise Broker family of products. These include the
Connection Database Broker, Security Broker, Directory Broker and Application
Broker.
Connection Database Broker
The Connection Database Broker provides client applications with connectivity
to remote databases using industry standard database APIs. API support
includes Oracle's Oracle Call Interface (OCI), Sybase's Client Library
(CT-Lib), Microsoft's Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC), and JavaSoft's Java
DataBase Connectivity (JDBC). Currently supported databases include DB2/6000,
Oracle, Sybase, Informix and Microsoft's SQL Server.
With the ODBC and JDBC API support, Connection utilizes server-resident ODBC
drivers to perform translations into native database calls. This enables
access to multiple back-end databases via a single, client-resident driver to
help customers dramatically reduce software, maintenance and administration
costs. In addition, performance and scalability are also increased by reducing
the number of network round-trips required for each database call.
Connection Security Broker
The Connection Security Broker enables desktop applications with transparent
integration with centralized security services, offering the benefits of user
authentication, data integrity, data privacy and database single sign-on
without any changes to the applications. Through support for the Generic
Security Service Application Programming Interface (GSS API), the Connection
Security Broker can be plugged into industry leading security services. Today,
these include DCE and Kerberos.
Support for the OS/2 DSS Security Service, based on DCE, is provided
transparently through the Connection Security Broker.
Connection Directory Broker
The Connection Directory Broker enables network managers with the ability to
provide location transparency and failover support for client/server
applications through industry standard directory services. Today, these
services include the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS) and Global Directory
Service (GDS), as well as X.500.
Support for the OS/2 DSS Directory Service, also based on DCE, is provided
transparently through the Connection Directory Broker.
Connection Application Broker
The Connection Application Broker enables traditional 2-tier client/server
tools and applications, such as PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, Developer/2000 and
Java with access to middle-tier business logic. The Application Broker
provides support for transaction processing (TP) monitors such as CICS,
TUXEDO, Encina and TOP END; application servers generated using Forte and
Dynasty; as well as legacy applications developed using C, C++, and COBOL.
Open Horizon utilizes industry standard APIs for linking desktop client/server
applications with middle-tier business logic. Current support includes
Microsoft's ODBC and JavaSoft's JDBC as mechanisms for invoking this
middle-tier logic.
About Open Horizon
Open Horizon is a leading provider of standards-based middleware software
solutions. Its flagship product, Connection, enables customers to integrate
new and existing client/server applications and incrementally add support for
enterprise technologies and services including heterogeneous hardware,
operating systems, networks, and databases, transaction processing monitors,
user authentication, data encryption, central administration, and directory
services. Connection is used by Global 2000 customers for traditional
client/server and Intranet/Internet applications. Open Horizon partners with
vendors that include AT&T, Claremont Technology Group, Deloitte & Touche,
Dynasty Technologies, Forte Software, Gradient Technologies, Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, Informix, Mitsui, Novell, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SUN Microsystems, Sybase
and Transarc.
Open Horizon was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Belmont, California.
For more information about Open Horizon send email to info@openhorizon.com,
call (415) 598-1200, or visit the Web site at http://www.openhorizon.com.
Pricing and Availability
Connection with one Database Broker for DB2/6000, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, or
SQL Server; the Security Broker and Directory Broker for OS/2 Warp, is priced
at $295 per client workstation and is available immediately.
NOTE: Connection, Database Broker, Application Broker, Security Broker,
Directory Broker, Management Broker, Connecting the Enterprise, The Middleware
Company, and QuickBrew are trademarks of Open Horizon, Inc. All other company
and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which
they are associated.
/CONTACT: Becky Snape, Senior Account Executive of Niehaus Ryan
Haller PR, 415-615-7903 or becky@nrh.com; or sales and marketing, Chip
Overstreet, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Open
Horizon, Inc., 415-598-1242, or chip@openhorizon.com, or fax
415-593-1669/
=====================================================================
-- email os2_ann_req@bix.com to submit articles to comp.os.os2.announce
-- email lfirrantello@bix.com for comments to the moderator.
-- Please use "Reply-To:" or "Source:" addresses for email comments
regarding this article.
