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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 24, 1993
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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DG ARTICLES
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649.
** LAST OF THE 88000s? DATA GENERAL SETS NEW 88110
AViiONs
(UGX, 6/21/93, pg. 1)
DG, the only mainstream system manufacturer still supporting Motorola's
88000 series RISC microprocessor, will announce a new generation of
AViiON servers. Prices of the servers are expected to start in the $200,000
- $300,000 range.
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DIGITAL ARTICLES
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650.
** GENERAL ELECTRIC UNIT TO BUY COMPUTER-LEASING
BUSINESS
(WSJ, 6/21/93, pg. B4)
DEC and GE Capital Corp. agreed for GE Capital to acquire DEC's US
computer-leasing business and be DEC's delivery partner for the support of
financial services. DEC said the company decided to sell the business to
focus on computer manufacturing.
651.
** DEC BACKS COSE, DECLARES END TO UNIX WARS
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 1)
DEC says it will participate in the COSE working groups and make
available some of its technologies and expertise. DEC sees the advent of
COSE as a clear signal that the Unix Wars are at an end, and that Unix
environments are becoming unified.
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HP ARTICLES
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652.
** SAMSUNG HP CLONE
(SE, 6/93, pg. 76)
Samsung has introduced workstations based on the PA-RISC processor.
Called SWS715 workstations, the machines offer performance of 69
SPECmarks(89) at 50 MHz, 37 SPECint (92) and 72 SPECfp (92).
653.
** COMCAR INDUSTRIES INC.
(CIO, 6/1/93, pg. 46)
Comcar, a trucking company, downsized from a mainframe to an HP Unix
network of workstations and minicomputers as part of a management
decentralization effort. The Unix system significantly increased the
availability of information.
654.
** COMMENTS
(UGX, 6/21/93, pg. 8)
Dow Jones & Co. Inc's Telerate unit has given HP an exclusive four-year
multi-million dollar contract to supply HP Apollo 9000 Series 700 Unix
workstations on which Telerate will deliver its financial information to
brokers and dealers.
655.
** AIRLINE TAKES HP ROUTE. BIG VOLUME, NOT BIG IRON
(IW, 6/21/93, pg. 69)
With 1,500 users and a high-volume of mission-critical applications, Morris
Air might have looked at a mainframe solution. But Morris choose to
upgrade their HP 3000 to a 4-way Model 992/400 to get "mainframe
performance at minicomputer prices." The company also considered the
IBM AS/400, but found it offered "slower performance for the same price."
656.
** HATACHI BUYS A LICENSE TO HP OPENVIEW
(UGX, 6/7/93, pg. 7)
HP is fast becoming a major source of system software to the rest of the
industry. Hitachi has licensed HP's OpenView network and system
management software, planning to make it the basis of its NETM Comet
network management product family.
657.
** HP BULKS UP NET MANAGER. OPENVIEW FOR WINDOWS
READIED FOR END USERS
(CW, 6/7/93, pg. 62)
HP is grooming its OpenView for Windows, a runaway success in the
network management OEM market, as an application-rich, end-user
network management platform.
658.
** COMMENTS
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 8)
HP acknowledges it is taking a leadership position in COSE, saying on the
one hand how interested it is in getting COSE to work and on the other
hand leaving the impression that COSE might fall apart without it.
659.
** COMMENTS
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 8)
In another downsizing from mainframe to Unix, Weyerhaeuser has given
HP a multi-year contract worth up to $25 million to implement its next
generation computing systems.
660.
** IBM, HP, AND SUN SET INTEROPERABLE OBJECT PLAN
(OST, 6/21/93, pg. 1)
IBM, HP and SunSoft announced their intentions to collaborate in the field
of object-oriented technology. The companies will use a set of common
distributed object interfaces on each of its own distributed object
development programs that will allow software developers to create,
manage, and use applications across multiple computing environments.
661.
** REWARD. THE LOW-END PRICE/PERFORMANCE PAIR
(DNR, 6/7/93, pg. 51)
The HP 9000 715/33 versus the DEC 3000 300L. Both systems exceed
expectations in performance and price/performance. The tested HP system
was priced at $5,695. The DEC model was priced at $6,495, plus $1,425
for a disk drive (This was required because diskless workstations are not
supported under OSF/1) and $705 for a KAP FORTRAN preprocessor.
662.
** NEW UNIX SERVERS NEXT WEEK FROM HP
(OST, 6/21/93, pg. 4)
HP will introduce six Unix-based servers, including three multiprocessors,
for its HP 9000 series 800 family. The June 28 rollout will feature new
members of its G, H, and I series server lines that are intended as a midway
offering between HP's current uniprocessor systems and the multiprocessor
Corporate Business Server line.
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IBM ARTICLES
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663.
** CHECKS AND BALANCES
(MS, 6/8/93, pg. 7)
To help banks control the costs of check processing, IBM has extended its
check imaging software from its S/370 and S/390 processors to the AS/400.
Image Enabling Services delivers high speed capture, storage and retrieval
of images in a database.
664.
** TALIGENT TALKS
(RS, 6/93, pg. 12)
After a year of silence, the Apple - IBM joint venture, Taligent, unveiled
some details of its efforts to develop an object-oriented operating
environment. It plans to release products by 1995, but various versions and
pieces of the technology are expected to be released in stages to enable
users to quickly implement the full technology.
665.
** IBM PLANS A VERSION OF CICS FOR NT
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 2)
IBM announced that CICS will be put under NT as part of IBM's plan to
downsize the transaction processing environment used by large companies
to build mission critical applications. CICS for Windows NT will be
functionally equivalent to the client-server version for OS/2.
666.
** IBM READY TO UNVEIL ITS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM OBJECT
MODEL CROSS-SYSTEM PRODUCT
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 2)
IBM is beginning to push its object-oriented development expertise and its
Distributed System Object Model. DSOM attempts to be a cross-system
product that enables objects to work together, irrespective of the machine
on which they run or the language in which they were written.
667.
** COMMENTS
(UGX, 6/21/93, pg. 8)
IBM is using IDC's figures to demonstrate that IBM is the number one Unix
vendor in terms of dollar volume. IBM's figures show it at $1.28 billion
versus HP at $1.17 billion.
668.
** COMMENTS
(UGX, 6/21/93, pg. 8)
IBM is talking about a four-way PowerPC 620 symmetric multiprocessor
for early next year with two processors to a card and shared memory. The
system may perform 2000 TPC-As. IBM's plans are symmetric
multiprocessing up to 6-way, PowerPC-based clusters from 8 to 32
processors, and then the RIOS 2-based Power Parallel line.
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MICROSOFT ARTICLES
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669.
** MICROSOFT PUBLISHES ITS HATCHET JOB ON UNIX
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 7)
Microsoft's paper on Windows NT and Unix - Interoperability and
Competition- claims that more than 60% of Unix customers are evaluating
or considering NT, and that of all the applications being ported to NT, 25%
are from Unix, VMS and MVS.
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NCR ARTICLES
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670.
** NCR MOBILIZES PENTIUM TO PLUG GAPS
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 2)
Showing evidence of a new, aggressive posture in the computer market,
NCR introduced an onslaught of new server-class computer products to
what is already the most comprehensive family of business solutions in the
world. NCR announced bundled fault-resilient capability using NCR
LifeKeeper software and new price-performance entry points.
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SUN ARTICLES
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671.
** PUSHING ON A STRING
(SW, 6/93, pg. 6)
For users migrating to Solaris 2, it's a mixed bag. Users have to recompile
their own applications. But few commercial applications have yet released
their Solaris 2 versions. Users have to run the older versions remotely,
using their new Sun box as an X terminal. Also, Solaris 2 is slow.
672.
**POWER PC SHINES FOR SUN
(RS, 6/93, pg. 8)
Sun subsidiary SunSoft plans to port its Solaris 32-bit operating system to
future PowerPC-based system, saying it will be available sometime in the
first quarter of next year.
673.
** NT PORT TO SPARC UNDER DISCUSSION
(UGX, 6/14/93, pg. 5)
Microsoft has admitted to having preliminary discussions with Sun about
porting Windows NT to the Sparc chip. Microsoft also confirmed
discussions with HP on moving NT to the PA-RISC chip.
674.
** COMMENTS
(UGX, 6/14,93, pg. 8)
The three year old Sun Users Group - independent of Sun Microsystems -
has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Its demise is blamed on
personnel turnover, administration problems and an increasingly
antagonistic relationship with Sun.
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OTHER
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675.
** FUJITSU GETS A HELPING HAND FROM AN AMERICAN BUDDY
(BW, 6/28/93, pg. 46)
Fujitsu has been distributing Sun workstations in Japan under its own brand
since 1988. Fujitsu expects to sell 10,000 units this year. The success has
prompted Fujitsu to expand ties with Sun, including an agreement to share
software. Fujitsu also plans to develop a new line of parallel processing
computers that might one day replace mainframes.
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