Apple Computer Inc has confirmed a report in MacWeek that NetWare for the Macintosh has been delayed until the autumn. The company is primarily blaming the slippage on the work needed to ensure that the software will work with the new Common Hardware Reference Platform machine, which is not due until 1996. Meanwhile the US paper has the low-down on Apple’s forthcoming server products. Following the example of the desktop Power Macs, it reckons the Workgroup server 6150, 8150 and 9150 will get their clock-speeds bumped up, with the 9150 getting the chip raised to 120MHz: no big surprises there. More interesting is the paper’s discovery about the 604-based server, codenamed Shiner – a name that last cropped up in 1993. The dedicated server will re portedly be launched in the fourth quarter, and will ship with either NetWare or AIX 4.1 loaded. There are no guarantees that it will have Macintosh ROMs, according to the paper. The tower machine will reportedly put processor and Level 2 cache on a daughter-board clocked at the processor rate, while the main motherboard runs at a third to a quarter of the clock rate. It sounds so much like an RS/6000 that it raises the question of why Apple did not simply source the box from IBM Corp or Compagnie des Machines Bull SA. Still Apple sources are adamant that it will be able to bring its own design skills to the server market. Still no sign of the multiprocessor 604 machines that Apple was talking about late in 1993, however MacWeek says that Shine s hould be able to support dual processors on its pluggable daughter-board.
