With a $7.5m quarter under its belt and now apparently in profit, privately-held OpenVision Inc has bitten the bullet and renamed its dozen system management products Axxion (pronounced action), formerly called Open V*. There is Axxion-NetBackup, -HSM, -Dfrag, -HA, -Event Manager, -Performance Manager, -Scheduler, -Xfer, – SecureMax, -Authenticate, -Authorize and -Detective. The company has now also integrated and packaged some of these point products together in various pairings to address specific management requirements such as event driven storage, high availability storage and security, secure auditing and secure event management. The company recently ditched the notion it had of using its Computer Time acquisition to offer direct back-up of relational database tables rather than hardware block copying, opting instead to take Data Tools Inc’s SQL-BackTrack under an OEM agreement for use with Informix and Oracle, with Sybase and CA-OpenIngres support to follow. It has got no plans to offer an object-oriented database as a repository or add support for managing object databases. OpenVision’s new chief financial officer Ken Lonchar was responsible for taking his previous company, Microtech Research Inc, public. OpenVision reckons to have done around $23m in 1995. IBM Corp’s recent acquisition of Tivoli Systems Inc should mean less confusion within the market, according to OpenVision.
