As expected (CI No 1,469) Hewlett-Packard Co has become the latest manufacturer to license AT&T’s Tuxedo transaction processing monitor, for the HP 9000 range. Supporting distributed Unix system transactions across local and wide-area networks, Tuxedo System/T Release 4.0 complies with X/Open’s proposals for its XA interface between a trannsaction manager and database management system, and should make Hewlett-Packard systems more attractive to the commercial market. The implementation is being done by Independence Technologies Inc, of Fremont, California for HP 9000 Series 800 minicomputers and Series 600 servers running HP-UX Unix. Prices will start from $4,000 when it becomes available in the fourth quarter. Announced back in January (CI No 1349), the new version of Tuxedo has so far won support from Amdahl Corp, Pyramid Technology, Sequent Computer Systems and Unisys Corp, and from database vendors Informix, Oracle and Sybase. Hewlett also introduced a new print spooler, HP OpenSpool/UX on the full HP 9000 range with prices going from $1,550 to $10,000.
