Hewlett-Packard Co has won Cincom Systems Inc and Software AG applications for its HP 9000 Series 800 business servers, which run the HP-UX version of Unix. Cincom will convert its manufacturing and financial software, Control:Manufacturing to the RISC-based machines in what the Cincinnati, Ohio company describes as a major milestone in Cincom’s migration to an open-systems architecture. Cincom’s entire product suite, the Mantis automated toolset for application development and Supra relational database are available on the Series 800. The manufacturing suite is designed for multinational manufacturers in the discrete, repetitive, project-oriented and batch-process industries, and will start appearing at the end of the year on the Series 800. And Software AG’s Unix products – the Unix versions of Adabas, Natural and Network are to go on the machines from the fourth quarter. And Hewlett-Packard announced a 33% increase in performance of its 900 Series HP 3000 business systems at the Downsizing Expo in Chicago. The performance boost was achieved as a result of enhancements to the MPE/iX 3.0 operating system and the Allbase/SQL relational database. The performance increase was confirmed in a TPC-A benchmark that listed 65.5 TPS for the HP 3000Series 957LX and a 17% decrease in cost-of-ownership to $11,354/TPS, the company says. Enhancements to MPE/iX 3.0 include the addition of pseudo-mapped input-output, which enables data to bypass the mapped file and transfer directly from the buffer to the hard disk. Timers on the operating system also were improved to keep the various computer processes active and available for quick call-up. Allbase/SQL was enhanced with the addition of stored procedures and triggers, reducing interactions.
