Roslyn Heights, New York-based Cheyenne Software Inc is ramping up its Unix and Windows NT story, admitting that while it has got a slew of Unix and NT products, it has done a terrible job of telling the world about them. Cheyenne is best known for the ARCserve storage management and back-up software it offers for NetWare local networks. Version 2.0 of the company’s ARCserve/Open implementation for Unix now includes client agents for NetWare and Windows, database agents for Oracle 6.x and 7.x, and support for Irix, SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX. NetWare agents cost from $700, Windows agents from $500 and the Oracle software is from $1,500. ARCserve 2.0 is $700 for Santa Cruz Unix and Solaris x86, $2,000 on the RISC Unixes. Santa Cruz Operation Inc will bundle version 2.0 with its OpenServer 5.0 release, while Exabyte Corp is putting the software into its EXB-10h half-height 8mm tape library. Cheyenne has also unveiled the hierarchical storage management software it picked up with the acquisition of Minneapolis, Minnesota-based NETstor Inc as HSM for Unix (CI No 2,571). Currently up on Sun boxes supporting workstations and personal computers running Network File System and File Transfer Protocol, Cheyenne HSM costs from $9,500 for 16-slot optical library support. Hewlett-Packard and Digital Equipment Corp bundle the hierachical storage management software with their respective OpenView and PolyCenter network management environments. Cheyenne’s plans for 1995 include further operating system support, a heterogeneous migrator for use across Unix, NetWare and NT, cross sys tem management, archiving, disaster recovery, communications and security. Its notion is to build up a suite of operating system extensions. The technology will be built, bought or taken OEM. Cheyenne claims it will grow its 2,000 Unix sites to 8,000 by the end of the year, building on NetWare users integrating Unix systems. It says its NetWare business will continue to rise, but not as fast as hitherto. The company says 88% of its business is still NetWare-based, 5% Unix and the rest split between LAN Manager/NT, Mac OS and fringe products. It did $97.7m to June 1994, and $35.5m in its last quarter; 80% of its products go through two-tier channels, 15% is OEM, the rest direct. It has 570 employees, 40 doing Unix research and development and marketing. With European headquarters in Versailles, France, offices in London, Munich and elsewhere, and a Japanese subsidiary with 25 employees, the firm will open in Singapore in July.
