-- Assists in hardware budgeting and purchase justification by
identifying the minimum hardware required to achieve target
service levels.

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His other achievements since being elected governor in 2002
include balancing the budget, overhauling education standards, welfare reform,
lawsuit reform, government efficiency initiatives, and transportation
improvement.

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Metron's
clients include Safeway, eBay , Bear Stearns, Nestle, U. The company
works in partnership with leading IT suppliers such as
Hewlett -Packard, Computer Associates, Accenture, IBM, Capgemini, and
Oracle. The forum, which runs Sept . Greenwood, who represented Pennsylvania's Eighth District in Congress
before joining BIO in January .bio.org.

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The resulting model is
solved in a matter of seconds.
BIO Mid-America also features eight workshops and panel sessions,
including a Sept.

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This essential, additional capability includes the
ability to identify bottlenecks, and to develop workload prediction
and trend analysis for hardware planning. Athene has been extended to allow a model to be built using
the OpenView extract file. The results are displayed using a
powerful graphical reporter that focuses attention on current or
potential performance. Customs,
LloydsTSB, Vodafone and a number of government agencies.

About BIO Mid-America VentureForum
Now in its third year, the BIO Mid-America VentureForum is the Midwest's
largest annual event joining private biotech and medical device companies in
need of funding with venture capitalists, angel investors, and investment
bankers from across the United States and Canada. More than 60 private life
sciences companies will give business plan presentations during the
conference.

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About Metron-Athene Inc. The company has headquarters in Laguna Hills . Greenwood's top priority at BIO has been
improving the advocacy operation as the organization deals with issues
encompassing the FDA, Medicare, intellectual property, and agriculture and
energy policy.

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LAGUNA HILLS, Calif. Athene has pioneered the
use of these techniques for distributed systems.

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Key Features of Athene's performance prediction function:

Evaluates the effect of changes in workload on end-user
service levels

Predicts the effect of hardware upgrades and other
configuration changes

Identifies system bottlenecks

Predicts resource utilization and response times

Reports results by device and key elements of the workload

Solves models in seconds

Athene Benefits:

-- Identifies performance problems in advance, so that action can
be taken before end-user service levels are adversely
affected.

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metron-athene., chairman,
president and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.

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In addition to BIO, the Mid-America VentureForum is co-sponsored by
Medical Alley/MNBIO and eight state biotech associations: the Colorado
BioScience Association, the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization, the
Indiana Health Industry Forum, the Iowa Biotechnology Association, MichBio
(Michigan), the Missouri Biotechnology Association, Omeris (Ohio), and the
Wisconsin Biotechnology Association.

About BIO
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) represents more than 1,100
biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers
and related organizations in all 50 U.

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Metron's Athene Solution Provides Much Increased Ability to
Exploit Metrics for More Insights into All Aspects of Computer System
Performance and Capacity

Leading performance management and capacity planning specialist,
Metron, announces the launch of a new facility to enable HP OpenView
data to be used as an alternative source of data input to Metron's
Athene Planner module.bio.

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It also allows users to
create mathematically validated proposals for tuning and reliable
capacity forecasting by the evaluation of models based on performance
predictions and procurement needs. Athene supports UNIX,
Linux, and Windows Servers, and OS/390 or z/OS mainframes .com

Note to Editors: Athene is a registered trademark of Metron-Athene
Inc.

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luncheon keynote speeches from Leon O.
Insights on the national outlook for the biotechnology industry will come
from Mr.
The two luncheon keynote speakers, Mr.

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This invokes the OpenView "extract"
command.
A scenario facility enables the user to define the way in which
configurations and workloads will change.

Metron-Athene is the leading performance management, capacity
planning and capacity forecasting software specialist. Moulder and Dr.

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty and BIO's Jim Greenwood to Speak at BIO Mid-America VentureForum

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, and Joshua Boger, Ph .

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All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of
their respective owners. Moulder , president and CEO of
Minneapolis-based MGI Pharma Inc. Other BIO Mid-America speakers include
executives from top life sciences companies such as Johnson + Johnson, Boston
Scientific and Genentech, and some of the nation's leading venture capital
firms. 23 plenary session that will consider whether life sciences
are at an inflection point in the Midwest.

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According to Paul Shimell, Metron's marketing director: "Research
has shown that only performance modeling tools that use embedded
analytical modeling techniques can accurately predict response times
and system behavior under variable workloads . Other session topics include
emerging markets, converging technologies, intellectual property,
reimbursement and the outlook for financing and partnering.

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HP OpenView Users -- A Pro-Active Approach to Capacity Management from Metron-Athene

This announcement means that Metron's recognized leadership in the
area of capacity management is now an easy extension for any HP
OpenView user."
To use this new facility, the user will run an approved UNIX
script on the target nodes.S. As a congressional leader on health care
issues, he authored numerous bills signed into law, including legislation to
promote pediatric labeling for pharmaceuticals, reform medical device review
and approval, and expand research and establish innovative programs to address
traumatic brain injury. For more
information on BIO, visit our Web site at http://www.

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, of Cambridge, Mass. Mr.org.

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Having an OVPA agent also means that HP
OpenView users can take advantage of the sophisticated automatic
enterprisewide reporting tools that go to make up the many Athene
applications. Athene, the
company's flagship product , is a widely adopted solution providing
fully integrated performance monitoring, alerting, analysis ,
management, reporting and capacity planning.
Complete information, as well as on-line registration , is available at
http://bma.

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Generally, these will be for-profit companies or organizations.

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WASHINGTON, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will
join Jim Greenwood, president + CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization
(BIO), to address the BIO Mid-America VentureForum at the Minneapolis Hilton
on the morning of Sept.

This would include research on trends and emerging issues of change, change impact assessment, scenario building and planning, organizational vision (visioning), and long-range strategic planning, as well as lectures, keynotes, workshops, and facilitation focussed on those topics .

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John Howorth, senior vice president of Metron-Athene, commented:
"Having an OVPA agent in Athene means that we can now provide the
level of predictive capacity management capabilities that are
encompassed in Athene to HP customers that have standardized on using
OpenView for the collection of performance metrics and have, to date,
been limited in this area. For more
information, visit www.
Governor Pawlenty's commitment to biomedical research and economic
development led him to spearhead the creation of the Minnesota Partnership for
Biotechnology and Medical Genomics, a unique enterprise linking expertise and
resources from the Mayo Clinic, the University of Minnesota and the state of
Minnesota. states and 33 other nations. BIO
members are involved in the research and development of health-care,
agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products .

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Boger, will offer
the perspective of successful biotech CEOs whose companies have brought
innovative new therapies to patients. Registration is complimentary for credentialed media.S.

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