In mainframe Unix, IBM Corp is limping in a long way behind Amdahl Corp, and last week it decided to follow Amdahl and commission Unix System Laboratories Inc to do a version of the Tuxedo transaction processing monitor for AIX 3 on the ES/9000 mainframe family, today’s issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports. The initial agreement could be followed by a second for IBM to sell the software. The agreement will make Tuxedo the first transaction processing monitor for mainframe AIX – IBM has its own CICS software for MVS and is expected to introduce CICS for the RS/6000 this week. Most of the work will be done by Unix Labs, which will use the Tuxedo implementation for OSF/1 done by Kendall Square Research Inc as a touchstone – OSF/1 of course owes much to AIX. Unix Labs hopes to have something ready by the first quarter of next year. Part of the push to make Tuxedo the transaction processing standard is coming from a group of 17 Tuxedo resellers and licensees known simply as The Club, which includes the likes of Fujitsu Ltd, Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA, Amdahl and ICL Plc. Ironically AT&T Co’s own NCR Corp has decided against Tuxedo and is going instead with NCR’s rival Top One.
