Motorola Computer Systems Ltd is attempting to take its 32-bit Series 8000 machines into the commercial market by appointing a new commercially-oriented distributor in the UK. MBS plc joins Thame Microsystems Ltd as the only two Series 8000 distributors in the UK. Thame Microsystems joined the Computer Systems camp in May and its role is […]
Motorola Computer Systems Ltd is attempting to take its 32-bit Series 8000 machines into the commercial market by appointing a new commercially-oriented distributor in the UK. MBS plc joins Thame Microsystems Ltd as the only two Series 8000 distributors in the UK. Thame Microsystems joined the Computer Systems camp in May and its role is to target the technical and industrial segment of the marketplace with the 8000. Motorola has 10 resellers for the Unix-based micros and does no direct selling at all in the UK. Motorola’s intention in the UK is to continue to market packaged products through third party vendors and sell system components to the OEM and system integrator market. Although Motorola’s first foray into the world of complete computer systems marketing was with Convergent Technologies’ machines the company does not anticipate taking on other manufacturers’ hardware. Motorola no longer sells the Convergent Technologies boxes but still supports some of that customer base – although some of its resellers were lost to Convergent distributors, Tetra Information Services and Star Computer. Motorola intends to develop the Series 8000 by using higher input-output and faster disk and by going to the 68030 processor as soon as possible – it does not intend to be second with a 68030 machine, but gets no favours from its parent.
