OSM releases customer installable beta of cosbatch V3.1

WOKINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM:  April 7th, 2009: UK based software house, Open Systems Management Ltd. ("OSM") today announced a second and final beta release of its popular batch job scheduling software - cosbatch.  The release offers existing and new users of cosbatch a chance to test out, and have a say in the specification of the final product, which offers a significantly enhanced method of scheduling 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 chance to use cosbatch 3.1 on their own test infrastructure, and to have a say in which small changes are necessary prior to our going GA (General Availability)."  

Chaney went on to say, "The driving force behind the release is OSM's wish to develop greater interactivity with its cosbatch user base, who are in the best position to advise us on development goals."

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.

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.osmcorp.com

For further information, contact Neil Chaney:

Tel. +1 206 583 8721     

Mailto:neil.chaney@osminc.com