Deciding that it can’t afford to be left out, and that it needs to play to be a credible enterprise-wide provider, Sun Microsystems Inc’s hardware arm will wade into the local network server market this week at Networld/Interop with a new line of pre-configured, easy-to-use Unix servers aimed at the application sector of that market. They are set for November delivery and there are two Netra machines running Solaris 2.4, one an Internet server, the other tailored for systems management, with groupware (by mid-1995) and database-oriented configurations to follow. Sun says that the series is its first new hardware brand since the 1989 introduction of the Sparcstations and Sparcservers. It checked out 150-odd potential names before Netra – most dictionary names and names that actually mean anything have been taken.
