Amdahl Corp yesterday duly announced its alliance on enterprise servers with Oracle Corp and nCube Corp – the third company turns out to be Information Builders Inc – and introduced four new models in its 5995M series mainframe line. The quadripartite alliance aims to deliver the database server within the next couple of months: it will be compatible with any mainframe with an OEMI parallel or Escon port, he said. Under the agreement, nCube will provide the massively parallel technology, Oracle its Oracle7 co-operative server technology and Information Builders its EDA/SQL query software, which will be integrated into Oracle7. Amdahl will integrate the components and provide service. The new mainframes have been enhanced with larger main storage configurations to meet higher throughput capacity, increased availability with the ConServ feature for concurrent upgrade and maintenance of expanded storage, enhanced Multiple Domain Feature and inclusion of the Escon Multiple Image Facility. The single-sided processor models 5995-5570M and 5995-6570M, with five and six processors, respectively, will be available in the fourth quarter, while the 10-way and 12-way multiprocessor 5995-10670M and 5995-12670M will not be shipped until first quarter 1995. Amdahl says the 12-way processor will provide up to 40% more capacity than previous 5995M models. The company also said the new models would be fully compatible with IBM Corp’s expected 9021-V3 10-way model mainframe as they come onto the market.
