O2 Technology SA, the Versailles-based object-oriented database start-up, this week announced an agreement with Digital Equipment France to implement O2 for the full line of Alpha AXP workstations and servers running DEC OSF/1. The interest of Alpha is its performance, and software like ours demonstrates the performance of the machine. A 64-bit architecture changes everything; its a super machine, said Francois Bancilhon, managing director of O2. Bancilhon says the agreement is initially for France only. The people at DEC France are very positive. We will be doing joint marketing; right now, we’re looking at attacking some new sectors together, such as geographic information systems, he said. He added that O2 is about to finalise an agreement with Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, for some kind of commercial cooperation in Germany. Siemens Nixdorf has already started implementing O2 for its remarketed version of Silicon Graphics Inc’s workstations, he said.
