As reported briefly (CI No 1,404) Integrated Micro Products Ltd, Consett, County Durham has signed CJK Corp to market its line of Motorola-based multiprocessor Unix systems throughout Japan in a $10m three-year agreement. CJK already takes the IMP XR fault-tolerant Unix line, and has so far installed over 30 for point-of-sale applications, stock control and order processing. Integrated Micro recently announced that its operation had sold its 250th fault-tolerant Unix box – the company acquired the former Parallel Computers from General Automation Inc, and expects the fault-tolerant market to grow faster than any other market sector, with much of the growth from with demand for transaction processing on open rather than proprietary systems.
