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BULL to sell IBM's Raven servers, extending the OEM agreement
Paris, 26 October 97
French IT vendor Bull plans to sell IBM Corp's 64-bit RS/6000 Raven symmetrical multiprocessing server technology, something that IBM at one time said the French company would not get access to. Extending their 1992 agreement, Bull will resell the Raven servers as high-end RL Rack Large servers, making it part of its Escala line.
As well as implementing IBM's 64-bits AIX 4.3 operating system across the existing Escalas, Bull will differentiate the boxes from IBM's own by offering them with its home-grown PowerCluster clustering technologies, management software, and connections to its proprietary GCOS mainframes. The four-to-12 processor Ravens will be marketed as high-end data base servers, above current stand alone Escalas.
Jean-Loic Delhaye
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