In its vast project to kick the mainframe habit and move to Unix-based client-server systems, Mead Corp’s database operator Mead Data Central Inc is spreading its favours around, and while some Unix business has gone to Hewlett-Packard Co, NCR Corp is also in there as a so-called strategic technology partner (presumably its non-strategic technology partners are the people that supply the brooms they sweep the floor with) as Mead moves existing applications off mainframes to a client-server environment: the two have been working together for the past year on projects to re-engineer access to the widely-used Lexis and Nexis on-line information services and create a new internal information system infrastructure and campus-wide network, and Mead is using NCR System 3000 symmetric multiprocessors and AT&T Co and NCR network products.
