Didn't see the article, but clustering hardware/software makes computer systems that can stay up 24 hours a day every day by allowing 'nodes' in the cluster to work together so that if one goes down the rest keep going. This is what allows airline reservation, ATM, and other systems keep running.
As far as ITP, not sure what it means yet. But the deal with Microsoft, Compaq, DELL, NEC, etc., IS significant. All those players want in on the enterprise market and know that Tandem's a respected name, and Tandem wants in to the NT market and those names are respected so it should be a win-win. NT is slowly moving into the enterprise. Can it handle 5000 online users yet? No, but between clustering, Intel's rapid processing speed advances, Microsoft's other software components for transaction processing, etc., and Tandem clustering, it will improve, and NO ONE will be able to ignore it. Market research firms still give the edge to UNIX today but all they talk about is NT, NT, NT.
I'd say TDM looks like a good buy, and I will buy it. |
