Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday introduced HP Encina/9000, its implementation of Transarc Corp’s Encina transaction processing monitor for its HP 9000 workstations and servers running HP-UX. The firm also announced DCE/9000 OLTP, extensions to its Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment implementation to support extensions for transaction processing. Hewlett-Packard licensed Transarc Corp’s Encina technology last year as part of its IBM CICS transaction processing monitor deal and the CICS/9000 implementation, which is scheduled to ship in a few months, is currently being tuned to support Encina/9000 applications. HP Encina/9000 is out now and comes in client and server editions. A client version is from $150 up – servers go from $3,600. Encina/9000 monitor licences start at $5,500. The DCE/9000 transaction processing enhancements include support for two-phase commit; a transactional remote procedure call; logging, locking and recovering for updating or rolling back databases; and scheduling, queueing and load balancing for prioritising transactions. The new DCE/9000 OLTP is available now.
