IBM, Sun take town NC medicine
By John Cox
11/03/97
Two vendors with the most at stake in the success of network computers
- IBM and Sun Microsystems, Inc. - are setting up thousands of the devices
for their own employees and finding out what is needed to use NCs on a
large scale.
In general, the deployments are going well and are on schedule,
according to MIS managers overseeing the projects. However, they have been
beset by a lack of good administration and management tools and a tendency
to underestimate the amount of memory needed on the desktop and servers.
By the end of the year, IBM plans to have 10,000 IBM Network Stations
on employee desktops, replacing mainframe terminals and PCs. The company
currently has about 5,000 systems installed.
By mid-1988, Sun expects to have 7,000 of its JavaStations humming
internally. Most of these are replacing Unix terminals or workstations.
IBM
IBM initially has been replacing Wintel PCs and applications with the
Network Stations linked to Intel Corp.-based servers running Citrix
Systems, Inc.'s WinFrame multiuser NT software. 'Multiuser NT becomes much
more like Unix in the sense it becomes much more amenable to remote
management,' said Art Williams, program director of scalable computing
solutions at IBM's Research Division in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
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