BMC BUYS SOFTWARE FROM VENDOR THAT LOST IBM LEGAL BATTLE

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Neon was forced to stop offered the zPrime mainframe program due to the allotment with IBM final month.

BMC Software pronounced Friday it has acquired the operation of IMS (information government system) database program and- associated commercial operation from Neon Enterprise Software, which not long ago mislaid the authorised conflict with IBM over the mainframe-related product called zPrime. Terms of the understanding were not disclosed.

 

 

Neon’s IMS collection assistance mainframe use-rs conduct and- keep up IMS database installations. Their further to BMC’s existent lineup of mainframe program will emanate “the broadest and- many comprehensive” IMS toolset in the industry, BMC pronounced in the statement.

 

 

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The understanding follows final month’s allotment of the long-running authorised brawl in between Neon and- IBM over zPrime.

 

 

The product authorised commercial operation to save income by relocating mainframe workloads over to IBM’s featured item zAAP and- zIIP processors, thereby permitting them to equivocate “punitive program permit fees” associated to the use- of IBM’s stand-ard executive processors, according to the legal case Neon filed in Dec 2009 opposite IBM.

 

 

In the suit, Neon claimed IBM had been creation erring statements about the program in sequence to defense the mainframe revenue.

 

 

IBM after countersued, observant Neon’s product amounted to an “attempted hijacking” of the egghead property, and- which the company’s commercial operation indication relies upon “inducing IBM’s commercial operation to violate their agreements with IBM.

 

 

As the outcome of the settlement, which was voiced May 31, Neon was henceforth barred from offered or offered zPrime. It was additionally forced to ask stream use-rs to uninstall and- fall short any copies of the software.

 

 

Now the BMC contract has cut deeper in to Neon’s portfolio. Its superfluous products embody MoveOp, the apparatus which helps commercial operation quit Solaris and- AIX server environments to Red Hat and- SUSE- Linux platforms.

 

 

A Neon orator did not rught away reply to the ask for criticism upon Friday.

Round 18 Jun, 2011

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