Platform opened offices in Germany

Munich 25 Feb 00 Platform Computing has opened a German office in Munich. In one year's time, with new offices in the UK and France too, the European staff of Platform has increased six fold.

The new German office is located at the Munich Airport. According to European managing director, Mike Fisch, the company wants to concentrate in 2000 in Europe on expanding the user support operation and focus on business in the financial and pharmaceutical markets.

Currently Platform has installed its flagship LSF Suite at over 1000 customers, with applications running from air line scheduling to genome sequencing.

Apart from its resoure management software LSF, the company also markets SiteAssure. Aimed at the e-business and ASP sites, the agent based software, helps keeping web based services being delivered to the customer even when the traffic on the web servers and the load on the application servers is changing. SiteAssure can, for instance, take web servers out of service and change them into FTP servers, when more of the latter are needed. It can also monitor the health of the machines and applications and take the necessary action without operator intervention.

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