Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Stratus Computer Inc is the latest company to adopt Novell Inc’s Portable NetWare, making it the first fault-tolerant system vendor to offer support. Stratus says it will integrate its full line of fault-tolerant symmetric multiprocessing computers and system software with NetWare to make the resources of its systems accessible to networked personal computer users. Stratus will implement Portable NetWare for its XA2000 and XA/R RISC Continuous Processing Systems and interface it to its Network Express data communications software, under both FTX Release 2 fault-tolerant Unix System V.4 and under its proprietary VOS – price and availability next year. Stratus and Novell also agreed to join forces to explore the required technologies for building fault-tolerant local and wide area networks spanning desktop computers, fault-tolerant servers, general purpose minis and mainframes.
