Meanwhile, Legato Systems, whose Networker Unix back-up product has been on the market for around a year, has added the IBM Corp RS/6000 to its list of supported systems, and has struck up a licensing deal with Intergraph Corp to make the product available on Intergraph Clipper and Sparc-based systems. The Intergraph deal is similar to Legato’s existing deal with Sequent, where Legato turns over the source code to the OEM partner for new implementations – it has a further agreement with Silicon Graphics in the pipeline that is likely to be announced over the next few weeks. Legato insists that each implementation should be proved to work with all other implementations. All should be available this autumn. Current systems that support the Networker product include Sparc, Digital Equipment Corp VAX Ultrix and DECsystems, and MS-DOS machines via TCP/IP. Support for Macintoshes is promised before the end of the year, when a PC-LAN version should also be announced. In the UK, Networker is available through Unipalm Ltd in Cambridge, and Legato also has representation in Sweden, Germany and France. Amdahl Corp, Texas Instruments Inc, 3M Co, Boeing Co and Memorex Telex International NV are among the large users of the product. Legato submitted its technology to the Open Software Foundation’s Distributed Management Environment Request for Technology, but the Software Foundation later decided not to include back-up as part of the requirement at this stage. Legato established itself with the PrestoServe hardware and software package for boosting the performance of Sun Microsystems Inc’s Network File System – that is now bundled in with high-end servers from Sun and DEC, with Sun shipping an S-bus version since June.
