It certainly seems to be good news week for Windows NT, and another notch on the Redmond bedpost turns out to be Amdahl Corp, which was muttering about NT servers earlier this year and is now expected to be ready to go as early as this week. Amdahl has apparently opted for Intel Corp’s Standard High Volume Pentium Pro boards as the basis of its servers – the same boards that Sequent Computer Systems Inc says are inadequately resilient for the mainstream corporate market it addresses. Sequent says it has to replace features such as the connectors on the boards with higher grade ones to bring them up to scratch. It is not known whether the Sunnyvaler will be doing the same. EnVista is reportedly the name Amdahl has gone for the one- to four-processor systems, which can be clustered to a maximum of 32 processors. Amdahl is using a fiber optic clustering interconnect, believed to be the one it also uses in its answer to IBM Corp’s Parallel Sysplex for mainframes, but that is not confirmed.
