December 1997
Week ending 19
December, 1997
- Dense-Pac
Microsystems Product To Be Used In Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC) Workstations
- Dense-Pac tests their 256 MByte SDRAM on Digital
motherboards; allows up to 1 GByte on a PC164LX.
- Dense-Pac
Microsystems, Inc. Receives $1.5 Million Order From
DeskStation Technology To Supply Newly Released 256 Mbyte
Synchronous DRAM Memory Devices
- And DeskStation Technology places an order for it for
their RPX164-2 based systems which will support up to 1.5
GBytes of SDRAM.
- Digital
leads multivendor Exchange effort
- Digital teams with 7 vendors of Exchange add-ons to
provide more functionality for messaging and
collaborative computing.
- NT
5.0, Your Next Server
- Some details on the distinction between the x86-specific
3 GByte hack versus the 64 bit VLM capabilities in NT 5.0
- PV-WAVE
Announces Version 6.2 for Microsoft Windows
- More features to make it more familiar to Windows-users.
- SunGard
Financial Applications Now Available on DIGITAL
AlphaServer
- SunGard Capital Markets' Panorama and The Devon System
provide complete enterprise-wide risk management,
trading, and tracking solutions based on standard NT,
COM, and SQL components versus proprietary solutions.
- Vendors
Embracing Merced May Chew Off Their Own Chips
- With Sun now committing to port Solaris to IA-64, one
analyst projects that this forecasts the end-of-life for
SPARC and PA-RISC. The analyst does not offer any insight
into why he feels that a manufacturer's choice to support
a low-end processor signals the end of their support of a
high-end processor.
- Workgroup
Products That Work
- Peter Coffee at PC Week groups Alpha's FX!32 into the
batch of products that he gives a thumbs up to as giving
users choice, going so far as to say as the Alpha may be
the only remaining competition to Intel that will lead
into the next decade. My favorite quote: "FX32 (sic)
gives buyers the freedom to select the world's fastest
processor architecture rather than settling for the most
popular".
Week ending 12
December, 1997
- Windows
NT Wizards Symposium
- Digital's in-depth meeting of NT Wizards is coming up.
- PC
makers plotting Mac expo offensive
- Two vendors invade the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco
next month with Windows NT offerings. Intergraph and
Digital line up to offer Mac users an alternative.
- 533au2
for Windows NT and DIGITAL UNIX
- Digital announces their dual-processor workstation,
joining Aspen's box. Two 533 MHz processors should give
dual P-II's a run for their money and allow for some fair
benchmarks where single processor Alphas will no longer
have to compete against SMP configs.
- DIGITAL
Announces Enterprise-Wide Medical Viewing Solution at
Annual RSNA Meeting
- Digital announces availability of the first set of
products for shared viewing of medical imagery and
annotations, in conjunction with ImageLabs and Dartnell
Enterprises.
- Digital
previews Tunnel '98, VPN security upgrade
- A new version of the Alta Vista tools will be available
in January.
- DIGITAL
Ready To Go Cluster Solutions for Windows NT
- Pre-built clusters available for complete off-the-shelf
solutions.
- DIGITAL
Servers Deliver Scalable, Cost-Effective Performance for
Microsoft BackOffice, IIS
- Digital announces support for BackOffice Server and IIS
v4.0 on Alpha platforms ranging from the single processor
workgroup servers through the 14 processor 8400.
- DIGITAL
Takes Media Content Creation Market by Storm
- The official announcement for all the rumours we've been
hearing about the past couple weeks.
- InterScan
VirusWall and ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange Now Support
Digital Alpha Server Systems Running Windows NT
- Alpha support for virus scanning in SMTP email
attachments, HTTP files, and FTP traffic, plus automatic
Exchange monitoring in two products from Trend Micro.
- Metainfo
Releases Upgraded NNTP News Server for Windows NT
- New version of the NNTP server includes a new
"Lite" version for small workgroups or select
ranges of newsgroups.
- Packet
Engine's G-NIC Gigabit Ethernet PCI Network Interface
Cards Provide Industry's Highest Performance
- New Gigabit Ethernet interface tops out over 400 MB/sec
on Alpha's 64 bit PCI slots.
- Parallelism
triggers supercomputer rush
- A look at supercomputer market and how different vendors
are approaching it.
- Red
Hat caps off new Linux 5.0 OS
- Okay, so it's not NT. But enough people running Alphas
want to do both...
- Rose
UltraView
- A review of a keyboard, mouse, and monitor switch with
support listed for Alpha.
- Agreement
Between Secure Computing and Digital Equipment
Corporation Expands Market Penetration of SmartFilter URL
Filtering and Monitoring Software
- SmartFilter to be included with Alpha NT systems starting
in the first quarter of CY '98.
- IBM
Intellistation NT-Based Workstation Posts Fastest BAPCo
Benchmark Scores
- A dual processor, 300 MHz Pentium II beats a single
processor 600 MHz Alpha running office applications -- by
a whopping 10%. Leave off the 16-bit PowerPoint benchmark
and the 2 systems are nearly equally matched. Check out the latest
SYSmark results from BAPCo. Now, where are the
results from that dual-processor Alpha???
Week ending 5
December, 1997
- BYTE
Best of Show-Las Vegas Fall 1997
- Tri-Star's StarStation Star SXE Workstation nails best
desktop system of Comdex, besting other nominees IBM and
Gateway. Look for the entry "Best Desktop
Workstation" in the list of winners.
- Digital
Ogles Mac Market
- Digital's
Intel, Alpha boxes to target content creators
- Digital
has new workstation on tap
- As Alpha continues to press into new markets, Digital now
targets the installed base of Macintosh users. This new
configuration of the 500 MHz Personal Workstation, the
Creation Studio, includes Corel Draw v8 (Alpha only,
Intel users get v7), MetaCreation's Painter, and Dragon
Systems' NaturallySpeaking, 64 MBytes of RAM, a 17"
monitor, 24x CD-ROM, a 4 GByte disk, and a IOmega ZIP
drive (sorry, Kirk!)
- DIGITAL
High Availability Internet Security Solutions
- Looking for the ultimate in availability for your
Internet firewall and tunnel? Never let your guard down:
check out the preconfigured clustered AlphaServer 800's
running NT and Alta Vista software.
- DIGITAL
Teams with Microsoft to Provide Highly Scalable Platforms
for Microsoft SQL Server, Enterprise Edition 6
- Touting the 8400 as being "the industry's only
servers that will immediately take advantage of the
performance, memory, and scalability advantages of 64-bit
Windows NT 5.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 when these
products become available", Digital announces that
the Alpha platform is now ready to take advantage of the
3 GBytes of RAM, up to 8 processors, and the clustering
that NTsEE supports.
- NT-Only
Alpha on Horizon
- A new system with the ability to only use NT firmware
will supposedly lower the cost to within 15% of
comparably configured, albeit CPU-deficient, x86 boxes.
This should help Alpha to further penetrate the low-end
desktop market.
- Short
Take- Buy one- get suite free
- Buy an Alpha for serving up Lotus Domino and get a
package of 20 groupware apps worth $695 for free.
- The
Ferrari of File Transfers
- A dedicated Alpha system that can act as a file server to
both NT and UNIX clients, this single processor box bests
a quad processor Compaq Prolinea by over 60% in PC Week's
throughput benchmarks. Whoa, did I say "single
processor Alpha" beat "quad processor
Compaq" in "PC Week's benchmark"? Cool...
- Upstart
Challenging Digital With NT Cluster
- DeskStation packages its own dual server cluster using a
pair of RPX164-2 motherboards with 533 MHz processors,
and Qualix's Octopus HA+ clustering software.
- Enorex
to OEM Box Hill's Raid Solution With Their
AlphaPowered(TM) Server
- Enorex looks to Box Hill to help build the "EnoRAID
1000" using an Enorex 533 MHz NT server and Box
Hill's RAID Box 5300 Turbo+.
- Strange
Bedfellows
- Systematic Systems Integration replaces Netware systems
with Alphas running NT to provide high performance,
quality, available warehousing and interconnects to
AS/400 systems.
- Digital
Semiconductor, Alpha-Based Personal Workstations On The
Way
- Old news regarding the 14 vendors who announced 21164PC
based workstations at Comdex, but this article includes
some insight into positioning and market strategy.
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