WIESBADEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--comForte 21 GmbH, a global provider of connectivity, middleware, modernization and security solutions for the HP NonStop platform, today announced that it has reached an agreement in principal to acquire the Escort suite of products from Carr Scott Software Inc. comForte’s acquisition of the Escort SQL, Journaling, and RANGER products is expected to be completed by the end of calendar year 2013, thereby expanding the worldwide marketing and support reach of these products by the NonStop experts at comForte.
'We are very pleased to be acquiring this exciting and powerful suite of products from Carr Scott Software’, says Dr Michael Rossbach, CEO of comForte 21. 'the Escort range of products complements the comForte product portfolio and helps us to expand our offerings into the database modernization space. Customers around the world with applications using the Enscribe file system on HP NonStop will want to move quickly to leverage industry standard SQL databases. With Escort SQL they can do exactly that.'
‘Any NonStop customers who may have hesitated to modernize their applications no longer has any reason to wait.’ says Harry Scott, Co-founder of Carr Scott Software. ‘With this deal, we expect that Escort SQL will reach more customers, in more markets than ever before, helping NonStop customers take a significant first step in the journey to a modern and Open application environment.’
‘comForte’s dedication to excellence and global reach with a team of more than 70 NonStop professionals, make them the perfect partner to take the Escort SQL suite of products to the worldwide market’, stated Dr Richard Carr, Co-founder at Carr Scott. ‘While we are excited about this opportunity, we remain committed to our Escort SQL customers and are planning for an extended, seamless transition, for them into the comForte family.’
About comForte 21
comForte is a global leader in the market for HP NonStop solutions—offering customers a comprehensive suite of proven and innovative middleware, modernization, connectivity, and security products. Worldwide, organizations in all industries are using comForte products to more effectively leverage their investment in HP NonStop systems.
With comForte technology, organizations can:
- Connect NonStop platforms with the systems, applications, users, and initiatives required to meet their business and technical objectives.
- Protect mission-critical data as it is stored in, and exchanged with, NonStop environments.
- Modernize their environment by seamlessly integrating NonStop databases, Web services and SOA initiatives.
- Streamline administrative efforts through intuitive interfaces, and sophisticated, robust management capabilities.
Today, more than 500 customers around the world rely on comForte products to manage access to mission-critical NonStop server applications and data.
For more information about comForte please visit www.comforte.com.
About Carr Scott Software
Carr Scott Software is the thought leader in designing and developing database middleware and infrastructure software for HP NonStop servers. More than 300 of HP's NonStop server customers world-wide rely on Carr Scott Software's products in many industries ranging from banks and brokerages, emergency services, retail, hospitality, gaming, travel and many, many others.
For more information Carr Scott Software visit www.carrscott.com.
For more information about Escort SQL please go to http://carrscott.com/sql.shtml.
