Unix systems management outfit OpenVision Inc, of Pleasanton, California, has acquired four year-old security management software company Demax Software Inc. OpenVision will use Demax’s SecureMax and SystemDetective products in its forthcoming OpenV*opss systems management product, due in December, which is expected to run on Unix, OpenVMS, Hewlett-Packard Co MPE and proprietary IBM Corp environments. OpenVision will take over Demax’s 40-odd staff and its international offices in Canada, Germany and the UK. Demax, thought to be OpenVision’s largest acquisition to date, is the first of a number of new additions to the company’s technology portfolio planned over the coming month. Also to come are new storage management and print spooling and management software – announcements are expected as soon as this week. In adition, OpenVision is also seeking other operations management, help desk and performance and asset management technologies. OpenVision is currently working to integrate the various components of OpenV*opss, some of which have been developed in-house, others that have been brought in. It will offer a common desktop to access the various modules, and although it expects all infrastructure elements to be in place by December, it says there will be more integration effort needed to get the technologies to work with each other. OpenV*opss will be sold as a complete environment or unbundled as separate applications.
