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cosbatch V3.1 released on General Availability
7th May 2009
WOKINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM: May 7th, 2009: UK based software house, Open Systems Management Ltd. ("OSM") today announced the General Availability of version 3.1 of its popular batch job scheduling software - cosbatch. The release offers existing and new users of cosbatch a significantly enhanced version of the software which is used for the scheduling of background processes in a mixed UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows environment.
Neil Chaney, CEO of Open Systems Management said, "This new release gives our existing customers a significantly enhanced, enterprise quality scheduler with what we believe to be the most intuitive look and feel of any software in our target market. ”
Chaney went on to say, "The driving force behind the release is OSM’s belief that software companies must help drive down the cost of software ownership for mid to large scale organizations. In conjunction with the aggressive, subscription based pricing options for v3.1 of cosbatch, we offer free online training and online technical assistance with installation and configuration."
The new software incorporates a large number of “under the hood” enhancements, including improvements that will increase reliability, security, speed and scalability. There has also been a major reworking of the Calendaring functions, so that any possible combination of dates and times can now be easily configured. Calendars may also be set for multiple time zones.
The most noticeable changes are those to the user interface however. The user interfaces in V2.4 and V2.5 of COSbatch included X Windows, curses (green screen), a native Microsoft Windows user interface and a web browser based interface. OSM now offers a fully integrated GUI based on Java Swing. The new interface is mapped to a Java API which sits on top of a SOAP layer allowing the new Client to be used over the Internet.
Chaney concluded “The new user interface is the most noticeable feature of this release. It offers all the functionality that we have been asked to provide including resizable windows which can be anchored anywhere within the Swing framework, drag and drop capabilities, graphical calendaring, and timeline projections. We fully expect to increase our market share as a result.”
About Open Systems Management
Open Systems Management (OSM) - a privately held company with venture capital backing, founded in 1988 and based out of Wokingham, UK; Seattle, WA, USA; and Perth in Western Australia - develops and markets low cost, high quality systems and IT operations management software for UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. The software is supported worldwide out of offices in Perth, the UK and Seattle, WA, USA.
Web: www.cosbatch.com
For further information, contact Neil Chaney:
Tel. +1 206 583 8721