Amdahl to Support Solaris on Intel Architecture.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1998-- Following the lead of Fujitsu, Amdahl announces plans for Solaris on Intel Amdahl Corporation (company) Amdahl Corporation - A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and today announced its intention to support the Solaris(R) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. with an Intel(R)-based platform. This follows in the wake of a recent announcement by Amdahl's parent company, Fujitsu(R) Limited, stating that it will be making the first shipments of Fujitsu servers running the Intel version of Solaris beginning the second half of 1998. Amdahl's time frame for its Intel-based Solaris servers has a target focusing on the introduction and use of Intel's new 64-bit Merced CPU chips in 1999. Amdahl will use the Fujitsu teamserver(tm) which it has added to its product line as the base platform that will ultimately utilize Intel's Merced CPU chips. The teamserver is the first leg of a new Amdahl strategy to provide a 'Universal Server' -- one server that can support different operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . In 1999, with Intel's Merced chip integrated into teamserver, Amdahl will provide Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) and Solaris support in a single hardware platform. Amdahl has been a long-term driver of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) in the enterprise both as a Sun(R) reseller for five years and with UTS (Universal Timesharing System) Amdahl's version of Unix System V. Release 4.0 is POSIX compliant. (R) , Amdahl's own mainframe-based UNIX. UTS products have been used by major customers since 1982. Adding an Intel-based implementation of UNIX is a natural extension to the Amdahl strategy, presenting a powerful common hardware platform for both Windows NT and UNIX. "Often, users that change or add applications must also change operating systems. This may entail changing their hardware platforms, as well," said Ali Jenab, vice president, Systems Marketing, Amdahl Corporation. "With teamserver supporting both NT and Solaris, it will offer maximum flexibility and free the customer from the need to change hardware platforms. This will greatly expand the utility of the hardware and protect customer's investments in it." "Further, this will allow our customers who have a UNIX need to satisfy it on SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (R), Intel or S/390 architecture hardware," said Jenab. "It also provides an enhanced migration path with full system interoperability backed by Amdahl's industry-leading service organization." About Amdahl Amdahl Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, 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 Windows NT, MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , and UNIX operating systems. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Amdahl combines hardware and software products and services methods with best-of-breed offerings to create customized solutions that help clients gain a competitive advantage in their industries. -0- For the Year 2000 compliance status of this offering and any others, visit the Amdahl Year 2000 Web site at http//www.amdahl.com/y2k/ -0- Amdahl and UTS are registered trademarks of Amdahl Corporation. Solaris is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. Fujitsu is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited. teamserver is a trademark of Fujitsu ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Limited. OS/390, MVS, System/390, S/390 and ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. are registered trademarks or trademarks of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) 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 X/Open Company, Limited. Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Amdahl news releases are available on the Internet at http://www.amdahl.com, the Amdahl Corporation home page. The Amdahl site provides current, in-depth information on Amdahl offerings and solutions for enterprise computing. CONTACT: Amdahl Corporation LVA LVA Latvia (ISO Country code) LVA Landesversicherungsanstalt (German: public insurance) LVA Literacy Volunteers of America LVA Layered Voice Analysis (Nemesysco) Communications Douglas W. Gruehl Timothy J. Polakowski (408) 746-8504 (860) 739-5598 dwg10@amdahl.com tim@lva.com |
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