Amdahl Announces the 1075 MIPS Millennium 800 Series Processors.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1998--

-- Millennium excels as a powerful business solutions enabler.

-- 800 Series shipments to begin December 1998.

-- SAP-certified Millennium processors enable enterprise-wide

SAP R/3 application implementation.

Amdahl Corporation today announced the availability of its Millennium(tm) 800 Series, the newest extension of the Millennium family of System/390(R) compatible CMOS processors. Amdahl continues to enhance and surpass its capacity and delivery commitments made on June 9, 1997, with shipment of the new processors in December 1998. The new Millennium 800 Series capacity at 1075 MIPS, makes it the highest capacity S/390(R) processor available. Amdahl's IT road map for data center strategy planning continues to provide customers a proven path they can rely on to guide them into the 21st Century.

The Millennium family of processors represent superior value to data centers by providing the most powerful S/390-compatible processor with the cost-saving benefits of CMOS technology, featuring compact footprint and high reliability with reduced maintenance costs. The Millennium family is ideal for S/390 workload consolidation because its exclusive Multiple Server Feature(tm) (MSF) creates up to four discrete servers with unique serial numbers in a single footprint thereby optimizing the capacity required to perform mission-critical applications. Software upgrade costs can be avoided and valuable raised-floor space is reserved for additional IT needs by reducing the cost of multiple, expensive-to maintain ECL mainframes with one compact, low-maintenance CMOS footprint that runs on much less power.

"IT's record-level data center capacity growth is forcing increased focus on all cost elements," said Carl Greiner, vice president and director of enterprise data center strategies for Meta Group. "Software has become a primary target for cost containment, and is driving the requirement for increased hardware granularity and application/environment isolation for software cost optimization. We believe this trend will intensify through 2000, until true usage-based software pricing emerges."

In industries where profit margins are narrow and competition is aggressive, many enterprises are turning to Enterprise Resource Planning applications, such as SAP R/3(R), to streamline work flow processes across all internal departments, as well as the complete supply chain from supplier to customer. All Millennium series servers are now SAP R/3 certified. The Millennium SAP R/3 certification is the industry's first integration of Windows NT(R) and S/390 in enterprise class n-tier architecture; it is capable of supporting thousands of users at approximately 50% of the cost of equivalent UNIX(R) architectures.

"Our organization is facing a period of growth and we simply required greater processing power," said Pat Newsome, Liverpool & Victoria's IT Services Manager. "The decision was between upgrading our old mainframe or buying new and powerful technology. The choice was simple - the new technology from Amdahl gave us significant cost savings, reducing running costs from (pound)100,000 to (pound)2,000 a year and improving internal response times by more than 20%. We chose Amdahl because you're buying more than a mainframe, you're buying outstanding knowledge, support and willingness to work with you. This level of support is really key to us and is what sets Amdahl aside from other vendors."

"The new Millennium 800 Series processors showcase Amdahl's commitment to providing timely, business-critical solutions for the data center," said Greg R. Grodhaus, senior vice president of marketing, Amdahl Corporation. "By once again exceeding schedule and capacity targets, Amdahl has enhanced its position as an industry-leading provider of data center solutions that focuses on delivering business value and reducing total cost of IT ownership. With Amdahl as a single vendor for systems and solutions, data centers can reduce procurement and deployment time, which contributes to quicker return on investment."

About Amdahl

Amdahl Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, a leading provider of information technology products and solutions for the global marketplace with revenues of $37.7 billion in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998. Amdahl provides integrated enterprise computing solutions designed to meet the needs of the leading, most compute-intensive environments around the world. Amdahl has over 25 years of experience with large-scale computing solutions and client/server technology. The company supports heterogeneous architectures found in mission-critical customer environments that blend MVS(R), Windows NT, and UNIX operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with world class offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries.

For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at: www.amdahl.com/y2k

Amdahl is a registered trademark, Millennium and MSF are trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. SAP, SAP R/3 and SAP R/2 are registered trademarks of SAP AG, Inc. System/390, S/390, AIX and MVS are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively (except in Japan where such license is non-exclusive) through the Open Software Foundation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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