Although there has been no word from the US about it, it seems that IBM UK has announced its version of the new Stratus XA2000 fault-tolerant machine, but the company’s perverse decision to relocate its public relations department in Portsmouth when about 90% of the media it serves are in London, tends to mean that its announcements take a week or more to reach us, and the System 88 information still hadn’t arrived by close of play yesterday.