Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is mulling offering IBM Corp’s Unix versions of CICS and DB2 on its RM series servers, Computerwoche reports, but the company insists that if it goes ahead with an agreement an IBM Deutschland GmbH spokesman described as 99% certain, it insists that it will not reduce its commitment to its own Universal Transaction Manager. The idea seems to be to pitch its own product at new users and at users of its BS2000 mainframes wanting to migrate to open systems, and the CICS and DB2 products at IBM mainframe users that want to downsize to Unix or build a Unix network around their hosts. The paper says that Nixdorf would market the products under the IBM logo; negotiations on a deal have been cooking for a year.
