Insatiable Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based Platinum Technology Inc has just snapped up two more companies – RelTech Group Inc and Answer Systems Inc, its sixth and seventh in less than six months. Platinum has furthered its data warehousing ambitions with acquisition of RelTech, Fairfax, Virginia relational-based data repository software products specialist. Platinum says the RelTech repository technology, alongside offerings from its Brownstone Solutions acquisition, will also help it in its plans to offer repository-enabled system software products for managing heterogeneous computing environments. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Platinum is reviewing the BrownStone and RelTech repository offerings, and is working out engineering plans and timing for an integration strategy to create the Platinum Objectory, drawing on the best from both companies to create a central object repository for systems management information, including metadata about all operational and warehouse systems, as well as all objects required to manage heterogeneous environments. The pact with San Jose-based client-server help desk software specialist Answer Systems is only at the agreement in principle stage, but Platinum likes the company’s Apriori support automation product with its patented Bubble-Up problem resolution technology, and has agreed to pay $30m in shares.
