IBM Japan was in there pitching with its US and European siblings on February 15 with the RS/6000 Unix machine and in Japan, SRA, Software Research Associates is to distribute six models of the AIX machines in collaboration with IBM Japan, and looks to do $7.2m business in the first year, $35m by the third; SRA already handles the Sony Corp News and Sun Microsystems workstations, along with Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes, and added the MIPS Computer Systems Inc line in January; it looks for $60m all told next from systems integration in the fiscal year from April 1.
