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F O R I N T E R N A L U S E O N L Y
COMPETITIVE ACTION - WEEKLY UPDATE
JUNE 10, 1993
Welcome to the new Competitive Action Weekly.
If you would like to be added, deleted or you have changed locations, please
send a message to Competitive /HP6650. Include your HPDesk address.
Competitive Action is posted to HP-UX notes in the group hp.marketing.
The string is entitled "hp.competition for <date>".
BC = Beyond Computing
BW = Business Week
CC = Corporate Computing
CIO = CIO
CW = Computer World
DM = Datamation
DNR = Digital news & review
EN = Electronic News
IW = Information Week
MS = Midrange Systems
NC = NCR Connection
OST = Open Systems Today
RSM = RS/Magazine
SE = Sun Expert
SO = Sun Observer
SJMN = San Jose Mercury News
SW = Sun World
UGX = Unigram-X
UR = Unix Review
UW = Unix World
WN = Workstation News
WSJ = Wall Street Journal
Editor,
Nadine Halsted
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DIGITAL ARTICLES
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596.
** DEC STAYS IN THE PICTURE
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 15)
Hoping to cut costs and unhappy with DEC's performance, Kodak was on
the verge of stripping the computer maker's responsibility for Kodak's
communications operation and turning it over to IBM's ISSC and Nynex. It
now appears, however, that Kodak will be forced to stick with DEC for the
remainder of the contract, which expires in 1995.
597.
** DEC NET MANAGEMENT TO SUPPORT NT
(CW, 5/31/93, pg. 16)
DEC announced it will support networked Microsoft Windows NT systems
with its Polycenter network management platform. During the next 24
months, DEC will deliver Windows NT applications for monitoring system
resource use and network traffic levels, as well as for managing software
distribution and hardware and software configurations.
598.
** FREEDOM WRITER
(CW, 5/31/93, pg. 98)
DEC will be announcing changes to its software licensing practices. Multi-
user licensing will be extended to include VAXstations, and personal use
licenses will be transferable across VAX and Alpha platforms.
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HP ARTICLES
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599.
** OVERHEARD
(CC, 6/93, pg. 27)
"God must have loved standards because He made so many of them."
W. Roelandts, HP
600.
** NOW, HP STANDS FOR HOT PRODUCTS
(BW, 6/14/93, pg. 36)
The buzz at the recent Comdex show was all about a whizzy new
ultraportable PC called OmniBook. Analyst estimate that HP could sell
anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 units this year and predict it will take six
months or more for a rival to develop a comparable system. "HP seems to
have a better understanding of what the user wants in this market than any of
its competitors," says BIS analyst Jeff Henning.
601.
** PRICE/PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS (DEC VERSUS HP)
(DNR, 6/7/93, pg. 53)
The DEC 3000 Model 300L AXP workstation breaks new ground in the
CPU price/performance arena. However, a different story is told when
X11perf results are used. The DEC workstation gives X windows
price/performance of around $1,100 per DEC station 3100 X unit of
performance. (DXUP). The HP workstation Model 715/33, on the other
hand, due to its lower price and near-equal X windows performance, delivers
its best DXUPs at just under $900 each.
602.
** NEXT AND HP SEEK OBJECT SOLUTION TO CLIENT/SERVER
(DNR, 6/7/93, pg. 8)
HP and Next announced the formation of Object Enterprise, a two-company
initiative that they hope will deliver the industry's first client/server,
enterprise-wide computing solution based on object-oriented technology.
The companies also announced plans to integrate NextStep with the Object
Management Group's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Cobra),
as well as the Open Software Foundation's DCE and DME.
603.
** NETDIRECTOR JOINS HP's OPENVIEW
(DNR, 6/7/93, pg. 15)
Ungerman-Bass tossed its hat into HP's Openview ring with a Unix-based
version of its NetDirector network management software for the Open View
platform. The announcement kicks of a long-term plan for both companies
to pool resources in developing and marketing distributed LAN management
technologies.
604.
** NETWORKING
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 10)
HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Novell pledged to work together to establish and
support open standards for network printing management. Specifically, the
four agreed to back the SNMP standard for managing peripherals on a LAN.
605.
** HP's DATA WAREHOUSING TOOLS. A FULL-SERVICE MOVER
(IW, 5/31/93, PG. 24)
HP doesn't just want to rightsize your company's computing architecture, it
wants to shrink the number of suppliers you'll need to tackle the job of
moving data off the mainframe and other legacy systems onto distributed
platforms. OpenWarehouse is a selection of tools from HP and a number of
third-party vendors that give users a single source of products, as well as a
suite of consulting services, for implementing distributed data repositories in
a client-server environment.
606.
** BANK EASES DATA ACCESS
(CW, 5/31/93, pg. 4)
Mellon Bank Corp's Financial Institutions Outsourcing (FIO) Group is
poised to unveil a client/server system aimed at dispersing highly targeted
information across a bank's entire organization. The rollout is proceeding
despite the imminent sale of the group's corporate parent, Mellon
Information Systems, to an unknown bidder. HP will bring its HP 9000
Unix workstations: Oracle will supply the database engine; and Powersoft
will give the development tools.
607.
** HP WENT THAT ARRAY
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 86)
HP has joined the club of companies selling disk arrays for the multivendor
server market. The new HP Disk Array supports EISA-based LAN servers
from vendors such as Compaq, Dell, and AST, as well as HP's own Vectra
systems.
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IBM ARTICLES
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608.
** CLIENT-SERVER
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 8)
At Client/Server World in Boston on June 14, IBM will discuss what it has
already discussed with 175 of its largest customers. Through extensive
research on early implementers of client-server technology, Big Blue has
isolated about eight typical designs that customers use when moving down
form the mainframe or up from the LAN. Those designs will now become
key elements in IBM's overall client-server strategy.
609.
** IBM's NEW CHAIRMAN BUYS 1,500 SHARES OF COMMON
(WSJ, 6/7/93, pg. A6)
Analyst remain gloomy about IBM's prospects, with many predicting the
company will break-even or post its third straight loss in 1993. IBM said
repeatedly it intends to review its $2.16 annual dividend, and several
analysts expect IBM to cut it this year.
610.
** IBM FORGING 10K-TERABYTE RS/6000 STORAGE LINK
(EN, 5/31/93, pg. 4)
IBM and E-Systems agreed to develop a link between the RS/6000 RISC
workstation line and a high-capacity helical scan digital tape storage
subsystem. The link, allowing workstation access to as much as 10,000
terabytes of data, represents a major expansion of the market for E-Systems.
611.
** NETWORKING
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 10)
IBM filled a major gap in its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking strategy by
extending APPN technology to the mainframe. The mainframe now
effectively becomes a peer on the network, allowing users to integrate local
and wide area networks within a single APPN infrastructure.
612.
** NT CROWNED? IBM RISES TO OBJECT
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 14)
IBM's technology is impressive. Known as SOM, for System Object Model,
it lets an application written for one computing platform work with an
application on another platform, sharing objects such as spreadsheets, sound
bites or video clips. By using SOM, an application written today for OS/2
will be portable to AIX and later to Taligent.
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MICROSOFT ARTICLES
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613.
** NT ERA DAWNS
(IW, 5/31/93, pg. 14)
Microsoft introduced Windows NT, its multiprocessing 32-bit operating
system. Full scale production of the desktop version is set to begin within
50 days. The server edition is scheduled to appear 30 days after that.
Microsoft maintains that the next version of NT will be the object-oriented
system known as Cairo and will be ready in 1995.
614.
** MICROSOFT OFFERS SOFTWARE TO LINK OFFICE MACHINES
(WSJ, 6/9/93, pg. B1)
Microsoft introduced software that provides a common language for office
equipment. Dozens of office-equipment companies, including HP, have
pledged to use the software, which allows photocopiers faxes, phones and
other machines to talk to each other.
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NCR ARTICLES
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615.
** NCR PUSHES 3700 MPP BETAS INTO 1994
(EN, 5/31/93, pg. 13)
NCR pushed back the shipment schedule on its Pentium-based 3700
commercial massively parallel processor by up to a year and is repositioning
its smaller-scale 3600 parallel system upwards to take up some of the slack.
616.
** NCR DEVELOPING DISTRIBUTED OBJECT TECHNOLOGY
(NC, 6/93, pg. 7)
NCR is developing Cobra-compliant distributed object management services
technology. The new technology will simplify how network services such
as directories, security or communications are accessed by diverse
applications and will operate within the Novell NetWare environment.
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SGI ARTICLES
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617.
** THE ANTENNA. A RISC FOR NEXT?
The growing roster of system vendors bundling Next Computer's NextStep
operating software could soon include Silicon Graphics.
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OTHER
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618.
** BIG DATABASES, SMALL PLATFORMS: MEAD MIGRATES TO
UNIX
(CC, 6/93, pg. 30)
Who says you need mainframes for big databases? During the next four
years Mead plans to migrate all of its operation, including its huge Lexis and
Nexis database search-and-retrieval services, from mainframes to Unix-
based platforms from HP, NCR, and Sun. The company estimates that the
move off mainframes will save Mead 15 to 20 percent annually in
processing expenses.
619.
** OUTSOURCING: OPINION IS DIVIDED
(BC, 6/93, pg. 10)
Almost half of 200 CIOs responding to a recent survey said they are
currently using or evaluating outsourcing, while a little more half of the
respondents have rejected outsourcing as a solution.
920.
** DATA TOPICS
(EN, 5/31/93, pg. 13)
Unisys reportedly is the partner that Intel's supercomputer systems division
has signed on to market a Pentium-based massively parallel processor.
621.
** DATA TOPICS
(EN, 5/31/93, pg. 13)
A delayed new release of Stratus Computer's FTX Unix derivative with
support for symmetric multiprocessing is in beta test with general
availability said to be imminent. FTX version 2.2 was supposed to be ready
in late 1992, but it's taken longer than expected to get the multiprocessing
capabilities nailed down.
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