Data General Announces Agreement To Supply Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH With Enterprise Servers.WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1997-- Agreement includes NUMA-based AViiON servers, NT Cluster-in-a-Box solution Data General Corporation announced today that it recently concluded an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement with Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH of Germany. Under the agreement, Data General's AViiON Intel based See Intel-based system. enterprise servers will be resold as part of Comparex's "OpenLine" product family. The agreement includes the company's new high-end AV 20000 systems which utilize highly scalable NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) A multiprocessing architecture in which memory is separated into close and distant banks. NUMA is similar to SMP, in which multiple CPUs share a single memory. However, in SMP, all CPUs access a common memory at the same speed. technology, as well as Data General's AViiON NT Cluster-in-a-Box solution based on the recently announced AV 3650 and AV 6600 AViiON servers. Piet Cilliers, Board member of Comparex commented "Through this strategic alliance with Data General, we are looking to significantly expand our business in the open systems arena. We believe the market will find the combination of Data General's excellent product technology and Comparex's strong customer support a very attractive proposition." Joel Schwartz, Data General's senior vice president for Worldwide Sales, said, "Comparex is a highly respected company in the European IT marketplace, which has built up over many years a strong customer base of major European enterprises based on the highest quality of service and support. We are proud that Data General was selected as the supplier for its new OpenLine enterprise server family." The new AV 20000 NUMA server, which began volume shipments during the third calendar quarter, is opening up new growth opportunities for Data General in markets such as on-line transaction processing (database) On-Line Transaction Processing - (OLTP) The processing of transactions by computers in real time. and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse . Included among the AV 20000 shipments was the world's first 32-processor NUMA system based on the Intel architecture to be installed and in production at a customer site. Retailer J. Sainsbury plc., which is based in the United Kingdom, is using the powerful system for a data warehousing application that analyzes customer purchasing preferences. In recently announcing record breaking fiscal year 1997 results, Data General made particular reference to the contributions of its AViiON enterprise servers. The success of the AViiON family has resulted in Data General holding the number one marketshare position in the 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. market for servers valued between $50,000 and $100,000, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an IDC report on 1996 shipment revenue figures. About Comparex Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH is the Information Technology arm within the BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida Group. For more than 25 years it has enjoyed success in large-system peripherals and, for over 20 years, through sales of leading products in the market for high-end mainframes. Since 1996, Persetel Holdings has had a minority holding in the company. Comparex is represented outside Germany by subsidiaries in Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Spain, the Czech Republic and Hungary, as well as by branch offices and sales partners throughout the other countries of Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Revenues of the Comparex Group in the 1996 business year exceeded DM 1.1 billion. About Data General Data General (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DGN DGN Design (file) DGN Dirección General de Normas (Standards Organization in Mexico) DGN MicroStation Design File (file format/extension) ), based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems, and related software and services for customers worldwide. The company reported revenues of $1.5 billion during fiscal 1997. Additional information on the company, its products and services is available on the Internet at http://www.dg.com -0- AViiON is a registered trademark and Cluster-in-a-Box is a trademark of Data General Corporation. All brands and product names in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Data General Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546 jim_dunlap@dg.com |
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