Legent Corp of Herndon, Virginia has moved to mobilise the technology it took on board with its Lebanon, New Hampshire-based Corporate Microsystems Inc acquisition of September 1993 to extend its software distribution capabilities to Unix and OS/2 systems, in which Corporate Microsystems specialises. Legent has announced DistribuLink-Unix for Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 and IBM Corp RS/6000 servers which automatically distributes software and data from the servers to target systems across asynchronous or TCP/IP links. It generates a full set of reports, and provides audit and logging facilities. DistribuLink-Unix is being offered as a Level One component of Legent’s XPE systems management environment and is priced at from $900 to $45,000 depending on the number of users. Pricing for target systems ranges from $30 to $150 per node for workstations and from $150 to $400 per node for mid-range Unix boxes depending on the number of nodes. SunOS, Santa Cruz Unix and OS/2 server versions will be available in March, with other implementations to follow. Target systems supported include a range of Unixes, MS-DOS, Windows and NT. Legent’s first iteration of distribution software, DistribuLink-MVS, has been around since March.
