Data management software company Vmark Software Inc, which announced plans to merge with Unidata Inc earlier this month (CI No 3,263) has updated its Datastage data extraction and transformation product. The new 2.2 release is a port to Sun Solaris; the first server-side Unix implementation of the product which has previously only been available on Windows NT. Vmark says it will soon be offering Datastage on IBM Corp’s AIX and Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP/UX and should follow with ports to Data General Corp’s DG/UX and Digital Equipment Corp’s Alpha before the end of the year, but says it is currently running into problems with compilers. The product was first released back in January (CI No 3,127) to spearhead the company’s attempts to move into the data warehousing market and has seen a total of four releases this year. Simon Tilly, Datastage marketing manager, says the relative size of the market for the new Unix version of the product will depend on whether customers perceive that NT is not scalable but he claims that attitudes are changing. VMark’s latest figures show a 40% rise in data warehousing sales. DataStage 2.2 is priced at $51,000 for the server and $7,900 for the client, which is currently up on Windows 95 an NT.
