White Cross Systems Ltd of Bracknell, Berkshire has sold a parallel machine to South African Airways within two months of signing its South African distributor. The distributor, Corporate Management Services Ltd of Sandton, South Africa sold the WX 9010 deskside parallel server as part of an integrated system worth roughly $700,200. The 12-processor machine will hook into an IBM Corp 3090 mainframe running DB2 and Adabas to interrogate data as part of a marketing decision support system. It will help SAA to make decisions about its frequent flyer programme. Corporate Management is signing one-month pilot tests with three other companies – an oil company, a retailer and a major South African bank. The distributor also took another machine from White Cross – the WX 9010 – for its own use in a deal worth 150,000.
