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To: Neil S who wrote (14684)	2/24/1998 9:08:00 PM
From: ilan saadia	Respond to of 29386

Bull Beefs Up Windows NT Servers (02/24/98; 5:49 p.m. EST) By Douglas Hayward, TechWeb Groupe Bull has begun to fill out its fledgling line of Windows NT servers with two high-end machines sourced from its United States-based sister company Packard Bell NEC. The French company -- which owns Bull HN Information Systems in the U.S. -- said Monday it would ship a family of high-end NT servers, the Express 5800 HV8000, aimed at users with high data throughput needs. The Intel-based machines will ship in March in configurations of up to eight processors. Prices will start at $26,000 for a two-processor machine. The company will also ship in March a two-node, eight-processor clustered NT server -- the Express 5800 CRM4100 -- aimed at users requiring high-availability services. Prices will begin at $70,000 for a two-node, four-processor configuration. Bull is also shipping a new NT-based version of its ISM/OpenMaster systems management software package in March. The version will include NT-based support for application and resource management for the first time, company officials said. The company has also ported its HighWeb package to NT. HighWeb clusters a group of Web servers, allowing them to act as a single Web server. The latest NT machines will be designed and manufactured by Packard Bell NEC, in which Bull owns a stake of just less than 13 percent. Packard Bell uses technology sourced from NEC of Japan, its chief industrial shareholder alongside Bull. Bull launched its Express 5800 series of NT server line in September as a collection of low-end machines. The company decided to use Packard Bell NEC technology for the machines, though IBM is its long-standing technology partner for the Unix-based Sagister, Escala, and Estrella servers.