Open systems software house Sphinx Ltd of Maidenhead, Berkshire has signed with 3Com Corp to become the first UK value-added reseller for 3Com’s networking hardware and software products. The move marks a push into the corporate market by 3Com’s UK division, which it says will be conducted through strong systems houses able to reach a substantial market segment of corporate accounts. Sphinx will supply the product through its Corporate Solutions Division, and says it will be adding value in the area of distributed application support. According to technical director Brian Mulligan, Sphinx is backing the client-server relationship on a local area network as the future of workgroup computing: the server would consist of an OS/2 or Unix-based machine designed and configured to support fast file access and processor-intensive operations.
