UPHOLD LIFTED/In San Francisco, AIM Technology's Fifth Annual Hot Iron Awards Reflect Diversity of Enterprise Nets -- and the City Itself.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1998--At the inaugural COMDEX/Enterprise show here this week, the winners of the Fifth Annual "Hot Iron" Awards, presented by AIM Technology, reflect the diversity of most enterprise networks, as well as that of the Awards' host city. Winners of AIM's Fifth Annual "Hot Iron" Awards range from familiar local favorites such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Silicon Graphics to international competitors from Acer to Siemens. "The Fifth Annual Hot Iron Awards blend the traditional with the new and celebrate the synergy of diversity -- a lot like San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden itself," said Tammy Bauer, president and founder of AIM. "San Francisco also reflects the state of most enterprise networks -- constant growth and change, dependence on diverse high-performance solutions working together, and the potential to shake, rattle and roll at any time!" AIM Technology presented its Fifth Annual "Hot Iron" Awards at a ceremony held here in conjunction with COMDEX/Enterprise, the first member of the COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). show family devoted to enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. and networking issues and solutions. At San Francisco's historic Palace Hotel, AIM's partners and guests enjoyed local foods, drinks and music while celebrating award-winning Microsoft Windows NT(R) and 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) System offerings from Acer America, Compaq, Dell, Digital, Fujitsu, HP, Intergraph, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Samsung, Siemens, Silicon Graphics and Sun Microsystems. The Awards were sponsored by Intel, SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. and ZD Events, hosts of the COMDEX show. Of particular interest to CIOs was the strong showing made by systems based on Intel's recently introduced Xeon(R) chip, designed specifically for use in servers. Dell, Intergraph and Samsung took six of the 16 performance and price/performance awards for Windows NT systems with offerings based on the Xeon processor. The "Hot Iron" Awards For five years, The AIM Technology "Hot Iron" Awards have been presented at major IT industry gatherings. The Awards are based on AIM's extensive array of performance tests, which use innovative technologies to closely simulate "real-life" computing and network conditions.
CONTACT: AIM Technology
Tammy Bauer, 847/516-9013
tammy@aim.com
http://www.aim.com
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