Adding to its burgeoning systems management offerings, Platinum Technology Inc, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois has acquired privately-held Advanced Systems Inc/Distributed Computing Group for an undisclosed sum. The Englewood, Colorado-based company’s transaction management tools will be introduced by Platinum as the WireTap products Xtn Characterizer and Xtn Monitor. Xtn Characterizer profiles client-server applications, analyzes transactions and records how much network, server and database resources each transaction uses. In turn, Xtn Monitor measures on-going volume and response time performance of transactions calibrated by Xtn Characterizer. WireTap joins Platinum’s performance management products including DBVision, for managing performance of Unix-based relational database systems and ServerVision for Unix server performance. WireTap is up under most Unixes next quarter, says the company.
