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To: buck who wrote (99520)	2/19/2000 11:22:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

buck, Intel investors, another big iron on Intel application from IBM. The Sequent NUMA servers and the IBM Netfinity machines are all Intel based. IBM is still pushing their PowerPC RS/6000 servers which "will run IBM's Project Monterey Unix by the fourth quarter." Monterey Unix is supposed to be in the process of bringup on Itanium systems as well. To me, investment in these kinds of products by companies like IBM help keep building the wall higher and higher against any other CPU chip vendor getting any entry into the server market. ========================================================== IBM Integrates NUMA-Q Servers With Other Products SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2000 1:10 AM - CMP Media Feb. 18, 2000 (InformationWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- IBM's Web Server business unit last week debuted the integration of NUMA-Q servers inherited from its acquisition of Sequent Computer Systems Inc. last year with other IBM products and platforms. Customers will see this integration in three product lines: the NUMACenter Director Web systems-management console, the DB2 Universal Database for NUMA-Q servers, and the Shark Enterprise Storage Server. Intel-based NUMA-Q servers still run Sequent's Dynix Unix operating system, but IBM says NUMA-Q and PowerPC RS/6000 servers will run IBM's Project Monterey Unix by the fourth quarter. NUMACenter Director, using products from systems-management software division Tivoli Systems Inc., will give customers a single management console for as many as 104 Netfinity servers running Windows 2000 and a NUMA-Q server cluster with as many as eight nodes containing 64 Intel processors each. Now that DB2 Universal Database runs on NUMA-Q, a scalable server based on Non-Uniform Memory Access architecture, customers aren't locked into Oracle as their database choice. While Shark is designed to store up to 11 terabytes of data, NUMA-Q servers can support 500 terabytes of storage. Rod Adkins, general manager of IBM's Web Server business unit, says IBM's acquisition of Sequent helped speed the NUMA-Q integration. "It clearly helped facilitate the technical validation," Adkins says. Diana LaTour, president and CEO at World Telehealth Inc., a NUMA-Q customer in San Mateo, Calif., chose Sequent for its ability to provide rapid scalability, and IBM for its global support. World Telehealth, a Web portal that brokers medical and dental supplies, expects to have its first system up and running next month. Says LaTour, "We need to expand rapidly without hitting a technology wall." iweek.com By: Martin J. Garvey Copyright 2000 CMP Media Inc. : bigcharts.com