To: Tony Viola who wrote (76570 ) 3/17/1999 11:47:00 AM From: Ian Davidson Respond to of 186894
From the WSJ: Intel Corp. Dow Jones Newswires -- March 17, 1999 Data General To Power AViiON Servers With Intel Pentium III WESTBORO, Mass. (Dow Jones)--Data General Corp.'s (DGN) high-end and mid-range AViiON servers will be available with Intel Corp.'s (INTC) new 500-MHz Pentium III Xeon processors. This includes the AV 25000 NUMA server that powers the AVFlex partitioning environment and the company's "in-a-Box" Windows NT packages. In a press release Wednesday, Data General said it is participating in today's Intel Pentium III Xeon processor introduction with a demonstration of the partitioning capabilities of its AVFlex environment. At the New York event, Data General is showcasing a 16-processor AViiON AV 25000 server partitioned into a four processor server running the Oracle Corp. (ORCL) Applications suite on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Windows NT, a second four-processor block running Oracle Applications on DG/UX and the Oracle8 database running on DG/UX on the remaining eight processors. The AV 25000 server will be configured with the company's CLARiiON storage system, the industry's only full end-to-end Fibre Channel solution. In addition to the AV 25000 NUMA server, Data General will also utilize the new 500MHz Pentium III Xeon processors in its high-end enterprise NT server, the AV 8700, and the AV 3700 and 3700R departmental servers. The Data General servers will be available with the new Pentium III Xeon processors in April. "The high-end systems from Data General running on the Intel Pentium III Xeon processor will deliver the high performance needed to support critical business applications," said Dave Cowan, vice president and general manager, Intel Server Component Division. "The AViiON systems provide customers with affordable, flexible and scalable solutions while providing investment headroom for the future."