Hewlett-Packard Co has beaten both the incumbent mainframe supplies, IBM Corp and Unisys Corp to a contract with Televerket of Stockholm to an initial $4.6m contract that could grow to $100m by 1996. The contract is with Hewlett’s Telecom Industry-Consulting Practice and is to modernise the phone company’s mainframe-based infrastructure. The initial pact includes client-server software from Sybase Inc and Applied Information Sciences Inc, and CA-Unicenter from Computer Associates International Inc, all running on HP 9000 Series 800 Unix machines. In a phased migration, Hewlett will offload IBM and Unisys mainframe applications to HP 9000 servers; Televerket wanted support for 1Tb databases and 10,000 concurrent users with subsecond responses.
