Platinum Technology Inc is offering a data warehousing tool to move mainframe data on to Sun Microsystems Inc boxes. It includes InfoExpress and InfoRefiner for bulk transformation and replication of data, and SQLAssist and ProReports for ad hoc SQL querying and reporting. No prices were given. The company has also announced Platinum Log Analyzer for Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, providing access to SQL Server transaction information needed to recover lost data, reconstruct past database events, tune application performance, and audit database activity. It is up under Solaris, Sun OS, HP-UX, Windows 3.1, NT and AIX running under the X Window System, and prices for it start at $1,000.
