Nokia Data Systems UK says it has now sold its first two Alfaskop System 30 machines, the high-end Sparc-based systems that first saw the light of day back in November 1989, at least in Scandinavia. The customers are both manufacturing companies, Wills Engineered Polymers, Bridgwater, Somerset, and Newbold Footwear Ltd, Loughborough, Leicestershire, and will both run Nokia’s integrated manufacturing, distributiuon and management applications. The Wills machine will support 22 users, there are plans to expand it over the next few years, and is worth around UKP170,000. The Newbold machine, worth UKP125,000, uses a specialist footwear variant of the manufacturing software, and will be integrated with an existing Novell NetWare network.
