Making the company look like the dark horse of video server suppliers, Digital Equipment Corp has landed two more Baby Bells, Nynex Corp and Ameritech Corp, for its Alpha AXP-based servers, the Wall Street Journal hears.Its previous win was at US West Inc. Nynex is expected to announce new plans soon for a test of video-on-demand services in New York, Portland, Maine and eastern Massachusetts using the DEC server. At Ameritech it is thought to have bested IBM Corp which had been the Ffavourite.Nynex confirmed that DEC had won server contracts, Ameritech said only that its trail of an IBM mainframe server had ended.DEC told Newsbytes that four further trials were pending including one with US Video Inc.
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