BMC Software Inc, Houston, Texas is building a data warehouse management campaign it plans to drive into the market management rival Platinum Technology Inc sees largely as its own. With Sybase Inc warehouses already under its belt, BMC is ready to tie the knot with Red Brick Systems Inc any day, announcing a Knowledge Module for the Red Brick Warehouse. Red Brick will resell Patrol and the new Module from July under Unix and NT. It gives users graphical tools for monitoring data about query performance, event logging and segmentation. They will also be able to automate management of user connections, segments or the functions of Red Brick’s high-speed parallel loader, the Table Management Utility. Patrol Agent and Knowledge Module run o n the server; Patrol Console runs on Unix or NT workstations. The Module and Console cost $6,500 on Red Brick 4.0 or higher.
