Digital Equipment Corp’s European Open Systems manager, Jean-Claude Money, claimed that DEC’s hardware business has started to grow again both in revenues and units, while the software side, 25% of it middleware, is now worth $3,000m worldwide. A growing $6,000m now comes from software and hardware services, and a proportion of that is now multi-vendor […]
Digital Equipment Corp’s European Open Systems manager, Jean-Claude Money, claimed that DEC’s hardware business has started to grow again both in revenues and units, while the software side, 25% of it middleware, is now worth $3,000m worldwide. A growing $6,000m now comes from software and hardware services, and a proportion of that is now multi-vendor support. DEC recently won a contract from the UK’s Ministry of Defence for servicing ICL Plc and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA kit, and has similar deals with British Telecommunications Plc, Sabina in Belgium, the Swedish railway company and the Koninklijke PTT Nederland NV. It has set up a support centre in Warrington, UK, with a network of all the different types of systems it supports. DEC also announced NAS support for Sun and NAS Advantage – a higher level of conformance with DEC’s Network Application Support architecture, with SAS and Progress the first applications to win the brand-level.
