Unikix. Sun bought it around the time Hitachi started winding down its PCM business.
In Germany, Comparex (which had been the local Hitachi agent) went down Sun's road in a big way and looked to this prouct to rehost a lot of their small Hitachi mainframes (Hitachi S5/S6). The product manager was Herbert Kurzfeld, whom I've known since 1978 when we bolted the first Hitachi machine in Germany together. The major problem we found was that not a single site could be completely migrated - there were ALWAYS some residual non-convertible applications left over, usually something like 10% of the MIPS load. Because they were integrated in the rest of the applications, it wasn't a simple matter of just outsourcing what was left. We went (at some expense and effort) down the road of using Flex-ES to carry the residual workloads, but IBM made it _VERY_ hard to get pricing and I think in the end all 250 or so installations were lost. The Central Europe small mainframe base has all but gone thanks to some really dumb people in Stuttgart. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
