Finally getting all of the pieces in place, Axil Workstations Inc this week rolls out an Internet-Intranet campaign, releasing five configurations of SunSoft Inc’s Solaris-based commerce, publishing and Internet access software packaged on its Sparc- based systems as the AxilNet line. Software components being offered are Internet Gateway for Solaris, the Solarnet WebScout TCP/IP Internet […]
Finally getting all of the pieces in place, Axil Workstations Inc this week rolls out an Internet-Intranet campaign, releasing five configurations of SunSoft Inc’s Solaris-based commerce, publishing and Internet access software packaged on its Sparc- based systems as the AxilNet line. Software components being offered are Internet Gateway for Solaris, the Solarnet WebScout TCP/IP Internet client for Windows, Solstice FireWall-1, the Checkpoint Software Ltd security software and Netscape Communications Corp Server for Solaris, the Netscape Communications Corp software that Sun resells. AxilNet Access is targeted at providing networks with a single point of Internet access. The 85MHz microSparc II system comes with 16Mb memory, 1Gb disk, two Sbus slots, Solaris 2.5, Internet Gateway for Solaris, a two-user WebScout client and costs from $5,500. AxilNet Publisher-1 is the company’s low-end Web server offering which is designed for sites anticipating up to 10,000 hits on their Web pages or file transfer protocol server per week. An 85MHz microSparc II box with 32Mb RAM, 1Gb disk, three Sbus slots, Solaris 2.5, Internet Gateway for Solaris, a two-user WebScout client and National Center for Supercomputing Applications Web Server costs from $8,000. The AxilNet Publisher- 2, for sites with over 10,000 hits per week, is a 100MHz HyperSparc system with one or two processors, 32Mb RAM, 2Gb disk four Sbus slots, Solaris 2.5, Gateway for Solaris, WebScout and Netscape Communications Server. Prices start at $11,500. The AxilNet Commerce-1 uses Axil’s Sun Ultra 1 workstation-compatible 143MHz UltraSparc system with 64Mb RAM, 2Gb disk, Solaris 2.5, Gateway, WebScout and Netscape Commerce Server. It costs from $21,000. The AxilNet Commerce-2 is the Internet version of the company’s multiprocessing SuperSparc II server. With one or two 85MHz processors, 64Mb RAM, 2Gb disk, Solaris 2.5, Gateway, WebScout and Netscape Commerce Server, it is priced at from $36,000. The Checkpoint FireWall-1 security firewall is an additional cost of $5,000 for a configuration that supports 50 clients the other side of the wall; $18,000 for an unlimited client license. Axil claims its tags are around 10% lower than Sun Microsystems Inc’s best-selling Netra line of Internet servers and more in line with the low-end D-Class servers Hewlett-Packard Co has dollied up as Internet servers (CI No 2,835). It hopes the packaged offerings will account for between 10% and 20% of new sales over the first six months. The company admits its sales team would like it to unbundle the Internet software packages so they can target the installed base but says it’s still evaluating the possibility. Axil, the workstation arm of Hyundai Electronic America Inc, says it will offer its own UltraSparc systems, using its own original ASICs in the second half of this year.
