Software Partners/32 Inc, which has laboured long in the Digital Equipment Corp vineyards is branching out into Unix for the first time. The nine-year-old Topsfield, Massachusetts company is extending its Tapesys VAX/VMS tape management system to Unix clients via ThruNet, an automated tape back-up and restore facility. ThruNet, still in beta test, will enable Sparc […]
Software Partners/32 Inc, which has laboured long in the Digital Equipment Corp vineyards is branching out into Unix for the first time. The nine-year-old Topsfield, Massachusetts company is extending its Tapesys VAX/VMS tape management system to Unix clients via ThruNet, an automated tape back-up and restore facility. ThruNet, still in beta test, will enable Sparc and Ultrix clients to back up and restore their files to a VAX storage device using Unix commands. Software Partners/32 expects to add AIX and Hewlett-Packard Co clients, and by the middle of next year says it will come up with a Unix server model for Sun Microsystems Inc, IBM Corp, Hewlett, Ultrix and perhaps Alpha OSF/1. The company touts the product as providing Unix systems with the sophistication of VMS by recognising multi-file back-ups. ThruNet supports VAX servers running TCPware or MultiNet TCP/IP. Prices range from $2,500 to $12,500 depending on configuration.
