Milpitas, California-based NetFrame Systems Inc has expanded its product line with a new C/S – for client-server – family of systems, claiming that they are the industry’s first multiprocessing parallel superservers optimised to support client-server applications. The line comprises the NF200C/S, NF250C/S, NF400C/S and the NF450C/S and is based on NetFrame’s Multiprocessor Parallel Server Architecture, using 50MHz 80486s or Pentiums with up to 128Mb memory as the application processor engines – customers can add both engines and input-output processors to enhance their systems. Application processors can run shrink-wrapped NetWare, and NetWare Lodable Modules from the likes of Novell Inc, Oracle Corp, Sybase Inc, Informix Corp. All existing NetFrames are upgradable to the C/S family by adding Client/Server Application Processor engines. The C/S family starts at $30,000 for a four-processor system upgradable to 10 processors and 78Gb disk, now.
