The seven packaged software servers IBM Corp will hatch in its Eagle announcement next week will be delivered as 4.0 product releases which boil some 70 middleware offerings down to 16, available on CD-ROM or tape. IBM says the eaglets will provide for easier purchasing, pricing, installation, administration and support. Pricing for the Communications, Database, Directory and Security, Internet Connection, Systems Management, Transaction and Lotus Notes servers will be announced on March 26 or 27. All seven servers are available on AIX 4.1.4. Everything but the System View-based Systems Management server will be up on OS/2 Version 4. Database, Internet and Lotus are on NT.
