Amdahl Corp is looking to get its faltering mainframe Unix effort moving again by putting together suites of third party Unix applications and integrating them with its IBM 370-compatible Unix mainframes as turnkey systems. According to Electronic News the company is looking to pull together relational database management systems, file managers, document and imaging systems, transaction processing, VAX-to-mainframe conversion tools and networking applications under its new Open Enterprise Information Management System. It hopes to have the offerings in place by early next year. The move is being viewed as a means of holding onto MVS customers that want to move to open systems, who will be able to run the Amdahl UTS version of Unix System V native in one Domain while running MVS in another. Amdahl also hopes to win over virgin Unix sites with the marketing strategy.
