Acquisition-hungry Platinum Technology Inc, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, is offering version 2.1 of its UniVision performance monitoring and management system for distributed Unix servers and relational databases. UniVision collects data for administrators and release 2.1 includes new intelligent agents, drill down information layers, an extended retrieval option that provides data on everything from statistics on object size, to the SQL statements associated with an object. UniVision is a component of Platinum’s plan to provide integrated management offerings for MVS, Unix and Windows systems using technology from its slew of acquisitions, with support for VMS, AS/400 and OS/2. UniVision 2.1 is up on AT&T Global Information Solutions, HP 9000, RS/6000, Symmetry and Sparc boxes with support for Oracle now, Sybase this quarter, Informix next half; prices go from $8,000 for each console, $3,500 per agent.
