Novell Inc will this week shrink-wrap the Tuxedo transaction processing monitor – it calls it red boxing – and put it on the market priced at $400 per user in groups of five or 10 users. The shrink-wrapped package will contain only Tuxedo implementations that are not available OEM. On the server side that means UnixWare, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and AT&T Global, which will all be on a single disk. On the client side, it supports Windows, MS-DOS, Unix and OS/2. The Tuxedo version being packaged is 4.2.2, an update that includes new features and enhancements such as 64-bit support, IPX/SPX client support, Windows Sockets support and 32-bit on-the-fly data translation. Novell will continue to sell Tuxedo source code to customers such as Digital Equipment Corp, Tandem Computers Inc and Unisys Corp. And Novell will also announce the strategic decision to bundle Tuxedo features into NetWare in the future, beginning with stuff like routing capabilities a year from now, enabling a client to access a server via NetWare. It also says it will integrate Tuxedo with Visual Applications Builder, the visual programming environment and cross-system tools it acquired when it bought Serius Corp and Software Transformation Inc last year.
