IBM Suites for Solaris and AIX Begins Shipping With EnlightenDSM as an Integrated Component

Business Wire, June 18, 1999

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1999--

Enlighten Software Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFTW), a leading provider of workgroup administration management solutions for the UNIX and Windows marketplaces, announced today that its flagship product, EnlightenDSM, has begun shipping as a component of IBM's Suites for Solaris and AIX products.

IBM began shipping its highly anticipated Suites for Solaris and AIX in late May. The integration of EnlightenDSM 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 Suites. Enlighten does not anticipate revenue contribution from the Suites product line until the third quarter of 1999.

There are three types of Suites: the Base Suite, the Business Integration Suite and the Enterprise Suite. The Base Suite for Solaris or AIX is designed to meet the needs of branch offices and departments and medium-sized businesses. Along with EnlightenDSM, it includes IBM's WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Universal database, Lotus Domino, Adstar Distributed Storage Manager, and Sun's SunLink SNA/PTP communications server. The AIX and Solaris Suites cost $2,499 per Suite plus $225 per desktop client. The Business Integration Suite adds IBM's MQSeries message queuing middleware to the Base AIX or Solaris Suite. It costs $6,499 plus $225 per desktop. The Enterprise Suite adds TXSeries (Encina and CICS) transaction monitors to the Business Integration Suite and costs $18,249 plus $375 per client. All of the Suites have an install wizard developed in Java to steer customers through the installation of the Solaris or AIX Suites as well as to manage upgrades to future releases of the products within the Suites.

The IBM Suites

IBM Suites for Solaris and AIX provide high 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.

About EnlightenDSM

EnlightenDSM provides a single, graphical interface to simultaneously manage mixed environments comprised of multiple UNIX and Windows machines including DEC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, SCO, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Windows NT, `95 and `98. The product provides immediate return on investment for customers through its speed of implementation, flexibility of configuration and low cost of acquisition. EnlightenDSM 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, UNIX/NT and Windows 95 and Windows 98 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, SGI, Sun Microsystems and Windows NT, 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.

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