Craig and all,
What's your take on DEC OEMing SQNT's NUMA line? It does seem to strengthen Brocade's position with regard to DEC and consequenlty with CPQ as well.
Another PR on the subject from today.
BEAVERTON, Ore., March 11 (Reuters) - Sequent Computer
Systems Inc (NASDAQ:SQNT) said on Wednesday that Digital Equipment
Corp (NYSE:DEC) agreed to sell an upcoming line of powerful
Sequent computers under the Digital Equipment brand name.
It would be the first time that Sequent, based in
Beaverton, Ore., agreed to sell its NUMA Center machines under
a different company's brand.
Financial terms of agreement were not disclosed.
Sequent builds computers that tap the power of several
microprocessors instead of one, as most computers do. Its
computers handle huge volumes of business information, like
credit-card purchases, brokerage transaction and telephone
network tasks.
The company plans to build a new generation of its
multiprocessor NUMA machines using Intel Corp's upcoming Merced
microprocessor. Merced, a powerful chip that will eventually
replace the Pentium, is expected to be introduced in 1999 or
2000.
Digital Equipment, which is in the process of being
acquired by Compaq Computer Corp, will sell Sequent's
Merced-based machines under its brand, the companies said.
Sequent said the new machines will be able to run Unix and
Windows NT software concurrently. Unix and Windows NT are the
two most favored software standards among big companies for
storing huge volumes of business information.
In January, Digital Equipment and Sequent agreed to work
together to develop a version of the Unix operating system to
run on the Intel Merced.
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