Novell Inc’s director of Tuxedo system product marketing, Ivan Ruzic, has disagreed with the view of Mark Bradbury, manager of business strategy at IBM Corp’s Hursley laboratory, of the transaction processing market (CI No 2,427) In particular, the sentence non-CICS competitors such as Top-End and Tuxedo… have so far garnered few customers (Tuxedo is mostly […]
Novell Inc’s director of Tuxedo system product marketing, Ivan Ruzic, has disagreed with the view of Mark Bradbury, manager of business strategy at IBM Corp’s Hursley laboratory, of the transaction processing market (CI No 2,427) In particular, the sentence non-CICS competitors such as Top-End and Tuxedo… have so far garnered few customers (Tuxedo is mostly used by AT&T itself), rankled. This, he says, is clearly not true. In fact, the Tuxedo business is approximately doubling each year and has been since 1991. Further, we don’t see this growth rate diminishing in the forseeable future. For Ruzic, much of this growth has been fuelled by large organisations downsizing from proprietary mainframes, many of which seem to be Blue in colour. The view that Tuxedo is predominantly used by AT&T Corp is at least three or four years out of date, he says. Tuxedo is available on 34 systems, some proprietary, and Ruzic claims an installed base of over 4,500 production licences. True, the installed base is not as impressive as CICS on the mainframe we’re fixing that too – but is several orders of magnitude greater than any other version of CICS, or any other open transaction manager for that matter. Versions for Windows NT Server and the AS/400 will shortly be available.
