Since we've all been waiting for news and haven't had much to talk about, I thought I'd post this extract from an industry trade rag:
Data General chosen by the Department of Labor
(Wednesday, March 25, 1998, 6:15 PM)
The Department of Labor's Federal Employment Compensation (FEC) Division has implemented Data General's (Westboro, MA) AV Image software to process workers compensation claims and medical bills. The $1.5 million system, deployed in less than eight months, is being used to scan 30,000 pages per day at 14 sites nationwide. The FEC is using the system to move towards becoming a "paperless office" according to government project manager Pete van Helden, as well as eliminating the need to store nearly one million medical bills received each year. The imaging system currently supports 100 users, but if it's successful the FEC "will extend the system to all 1,000 users in the FEC Program," said van Helden. The system runs on Data General's AViiON UNIX servers and CLARiiON disk array storage units, and is connected to 20 Kodak (Rochester, NY) high-speed scanners and Hewlett-Packard (Greeley, CO) high-speed printers.
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DG OEM's Altris's Win Track and viewer / TIE technology. But this seems to be an old-news sale ("deployed in less than eight months...")
Also, Altris would have received a fairly small part of the 1.5 million. DG sells the OEM product at fairly low cost, made possible by an aggressive discount they get from Altris. Also, DG would rather sell servers and hardware I am convinced.
Maybe DG will buy them. Nah. |
