Enlighten Software Executes License Agreement With IBM

Business Wire, Feb 22, 1999

NEW ORLEANS/SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 1999--

IBM to Integrate EnlightenDSM into UNIX Suites for Solaris and AIX

Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFTW), a provider of workgroup administration and enterprise management solutions for UNIX and Windows, and IBM today announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement for Enlighten's flagship product, EnlightenDSM. IBM will integrate EnlightenDSM into new IBM Suites for Solaris and AIX.

The agreement will benefit customers by providing Enlighten's affordable cross-platform solution for the workgroup management and administration of heterogeneous UNIX and Windows systems into the powerful UNIX Suites. In addition to EnlightenDSM, the Suites includes IBM DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server, Lotus Domino, and other IBM products. IBM and its business partners will market the Suites worldwide with EnlightenDSM as an integral part.

"EnlightenDSM is a perfect complement to the Suites, providing a complete workgroup systems management solution," said Dick Sullivan, vice president, Integrated Solutions Marketing, IBM Software Group. "Incorporating EnlightenDSM into our new Suites for e-business gives our customers high powered workgroup systems management capabilities for their Solaris and AIX environments."

"We are extremely pleased that IBM has chosen to integrate EnlightenDSM as the workgroup systems management solution for their UNIX Suites," said David D. Parker, President and CEO of Enlighten Software Solutions. "To be included with other best of breed IBM products such as DB2 Universal Database and Lotus Domino is an indication of both the strength of the EnlightenDSM technology as well as the increased importance of systems management to customers worldwide."

Mr. Parker added, "This relationship represents a major step toward our goal of becoming the de facto systems management tool for the UNIX/Windows marketplace. Having now added IBM to our existing relationships with Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and GE's IT Distribution Group, EnlightenDSM is well positioned to become the systems management tool with the greatest market penetration in terms of licensed copies in the market."

The IBM Suites

IBM Suites for Solaris and AIX are new from IBM. They provide the best reliability, security, and support available for connected enterprises and autonomous departments using applications on UNIX servers. By choosing IBM Suites, customers can acquire a secure technology foundation that frees them to concentrate on their business applications and achieve their business objectives. Software developers, value-added distributors and resellers, system integrators and other solution providers use the IBM Suites as a secure technology base for developing "e-business" solutions for customers in diverse industries and markets. A full complement of Web-ready capabilities are provided, including messaging, collaboration, networking, and data and systems management, using key elements from some of IBM's best products.

EnlightenDSM

EnlightenDSM continues to set the standard for ease of use and deployment in the systems management software field. The product provides immediate return on investment for customers through its speed of implementation, flexibility of configuration and low cost of acquisition. The product increases productivity for the systems administration team by simplifying complex and lengthy tasks and consolidating system wide information. It also allows administrators to delegate mundane and time consuming tasks to less technical users throughout an organization, without relinquishing centralized control and privileged user authority. EnlightenDSM also increases system availability through improved monitoring and control of resources and users.

About IBM

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM software offers the widest range of applications, middleware and operating systems for all types of computing platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. The fastest way to get more information about IBM software is through the IBM software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com.

About Enlighten

Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. is a provider of UNIX and UNIX/Windows environment workgroup administration and enterprise management solutions for open systems distributed computing environments. The Company's award winning EnlightenDSM product suite provides cost-effective systems administration solutions for mixed vendor environments including DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SCO, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Windows NT and Windows 95 and Windows 98. The EnlightenDSM product suite provides comprehensive functionality with unprecedented ease of installation and use. The EnlightenDSM product suite conforms with industry standard frameworks yet allows seamless integration with other vendors' point solutions. For more information, please visit the Company's web site located at http://www.enlightenDSM.com.