Hewlett-Packard Co has teamed up with IBM Corp’s Metaphor Computer Systems Inc for joint development and marketing of software to provide access from Metaphor’s Data Interpretation System decision support software to HP 9000 Series 800 Precision Architecture servers, making the machine the first non-IBM computer for the product. Metaphor has already announced a Unix-based gateway enabling access to Sybase SQL Server and the Red Brick Warehouse repositories. The two have users in common and it was at the request of some large accounts that the relationship was formed. The new gateway will be out in mid-1993. Metaphor will not say whether deals with others are planned.
