The PowerPC Unix community is a thriving hotbed of shared and exchanged technologies, and in its first major deal since it was spun off from Harris Corp in September, Harris Computer Systems Corp has won Compagnie des Machines Bull SA’s Open Systems & Software Division’s support for its Secure/Power Unix operating system on Bull’s Escala family of PowerPC-based symmetric multiprocessing computers. Harris Computer will offer Bull’s Escala family to broaden its product line at the lower end, taking advantage of Bull’s PowerScale architecture for the secure transaction processing market and Bull will use Harris Computer’s work and expertise in secure systems to improve and extend its offerings for customers in public administration, defence, telecommunications, financial and other sensitive applications where data security is a critical concern. Secure/Power Unix is designed to meet the US National Computer Security Center’s B2-level security requirements.
