Axil Computer awarded GSA contract; entire SPARC-based product line included.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 1995--Axil Computer Monday announced that it has been awarded a GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Schedule Contract by the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. General Service Administration. The awarding of this contract makes Axil's SPARC-based servers and workstations available to federal customers at a price up to 20% less than comparable Sun products sold through third party GSA Schedule holders. "This is a win both for Axil ax·il n. The upper angle between a lateral organ, such as a leafstalk, and the stem that bears it. [Latin axilla, armpit. and for federal agencies," said Arun Taneja, Axil's vice president of marketing. "Obviously we're excited about having direct access to the valued government customers but more importantly, federal customers have a better price/performance opportunity to meet their 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 needs." The contract, GS00K95AG55509, is a Multiple Award Schedule Contract. The Axil GSA Schedule allows the customer to either buy popular preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. systems or build their own system customized to their specifications. The Schedule includes the low-end Axil 240 and Axil 245, the mid-range Axil 320 Series, the Axil Axilerate upgrade boards and the powerful AxilServer S/400. For customers looking to configure their own systems, essential peripherals such as memory, hard drives and monitors are included on the schedule. New products from Axil will be added to the schedule as they are approved by the GSA. "We give customers greater freedom of choice for configuring workstation and server products," Taneja continued. "We offer a wide range of SPARC processors and price/performance points, as well as a range of peripheral products for customers to choose from. They can't do that with other vendor's SPARC systems." Government users looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. more information on Axil Federal should call 800/472-AXIL or contact their local Axil reseller. Axil Computer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based company, develops and manufactures made-in-the-USA SPARC-based workstations and servers. Axil sells its products through a worldwide network of value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. and distributors. All Axil products are 100% compatible with SPARC so all Solaris and SunOS-based application programs run without modification on the Axil machines and integrate seamlessly into SPARC networks. Axil, an independent business unit of Hyundai, is located at 3151 Coronado Road, Santa Clara, CA 95054. CONTACT: Axil Computer Inc. Bobbe Smirni, 408/486-5464 or Thomas Associates Inc. Roger Knott, roger@thomaspr.com Barbara Kohn, barbarak@thomaspr.com 415/325-6236 |
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