Santa Clara, California-based server builder Auspex Systems Inc, which currently uses the Sparc RISC in its servers, but has been planning to move to the PowerPC even after IBM Corp’s OEM agreement to implement Auspex technology on RS/6000s was terminated, has now brought its plans to fruition, and has chosen as its PowerPC partner Compagnie des Machines Bull SA. The two are to develop and market a new high-performance data server based on Bull’s Escala symmetric multiprocessing PowerPC AIX servers and the Auspex Functional Multiprocessing architecture. The new Escala-based server will be sold by Auspex as part of its NetServer family, and will run IBM’s AIX version of Unix. Bull will provide both the current Sparc-based and new generation PowerPC-based NetServer products to users in its major European markets. No dates were given for when the new Escala systems will be ready.
