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Data General supplies Comparex with OpenLine servers
Mannheim, November 97
Comparex Informationssysteme has concluded an OEM agreement with Data General Corporation. Under the agreement, Data General's AViiON Intel based enterprise servers will be resold as part of Comparex's OpenLine product family. The agreement includes the company's new high-end AV 20000 systems which utilize highly scalable NUMA technology, as well as Data General's AViiON NT Cluster-in-a-Box based on the AV 3650 and AV 6600 AViiON servers.
Through the alliance with Data General Comparex tries to expand its business in the open systems arena. The new AV 20000 NUMA server, which began volume shipments during the third calendar quarter, is opening up new growth opportunities for Data General in markets such as on-line transaction processing and data warehousing. Included among the AV 20000 shipments was the 32-processor NUMA system based on the Intel architecture to be installed and in production at a customer site.
Comparex is the Information Technology arm within the BASF Group. The company has activities in large-system peripherals and sales of products in the market for high-end mainframes. Since 1996, Persetel Holdings has had a minority holding in the company. Comparex is represented outside Germany by subsidiaries in Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Spain, the Czech Republic and Hungary, as well as by branch offices and sales partners throughout the other countries of Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Data General, based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in servers, storage systems, related software and services.
Sandra Wermer
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