Unisys makes new mainframe rivaling IBM's
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Unisys Corp introduces the 2200/900 mainframe, touted as two-and-a-half times more powerful than its previous top-of-the-line model, the 2200/600. The new machine is targeted for the on-line transaction processing market and will come with two, three or four central processors at a price of between $8- to $16 million. The price is reportedly 25 percent lower per unit of computing power compared to the 2200/600. Unisys seeks to compete with market leader IBM, yet its marketing strategy focuses on the needs of its existing customers, thereby implying that it is ceding new customers to IBM. Industry insiders say Unisys' new product's performance is just comparable to IBM's. Customers who are worried about Unisys' financial instability are expected to go with IBM.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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IBM likely to unveil potent mainframes in firm's biggest such move in a decade
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IBM is expected to announce a new mainframe computers on Sep 5, 1990. This is expected to be the most important mainframe-computer announcement in a decade and it could mean that the mainframe market will be healthy until at least 1995. The new mainframes are expected to offer an enormous increase in computing power over current models and up to 16 of the new machines will be capable of becoming linked, so that they act as one computer. IBM declined to comment on the new mainframes but analysts expect that one of the machines, with four processors, will operate at 163 million instructions per second (MIPS) and another, with six processors, will operate at 230 MIPS. IBM's most powerful computer to date runs at 112 MIPS.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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