Amdahl Corp is no doubt thrilled with all the mainframe-strength features Sun Microsystems Inc claims to have built into its new Ultra Enterprise servers and has rushed to add the things to its own product line without even bothering to change the name or dress them up in Amdahl colors. It hopes to hold on to its mainframe customers committed to moving to open systems with the servers, highlighting their suitability applications such as SAP AG’s R/3, data warehousing, and transaction processing. Amdahl is offering all standard Oracle Corp products including database, gateways and protocol adaptors, tools, development aids, Web and media products on the machines. A new Fibre 2000 Storage Array Series of disk subsystems can be installed up to a mile and a quarter away from the processors. An A+InterConnect Gateway parallel channel from Data/Ware Development Inc links System/39p applications and data to the servers; it has picked up an uninterruptible power supply from Exide Electronics Inc.
