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RS/6 000 This line of UNIX-based systems reaches
from workstations to the most powerful computers
on earth – the SP-class supercomputers. In 1998, the
SP line recorded major wins at the U.S. National Weather
Service and the San Diego Supercomputing Center.
HARD FACTS
ABOUT ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE
IBM ranks among the leaders in each of the key
middleware segments, and our products run on all
the industry’s leading operating systems – including
HP-UX, Solaris, Windows NT, AIX, OS/2, OS/400
and OS/390.
because enterprisecomputing is being rediscovered
MESSAGING AND
COLLABORATION
Lotus Notes and Domino are
leaders and enjoy double-
digit growth rates. New
installations totaled more
than 14 million in 1998.
APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT
To become an e-business,
a customer must extend
its investment in existing
technology to the Internet.
In 1998, we maintained our
number-one position in
application development
software and tools, such
as VisualAge for Java.
DATA
MANAGEMENT
More than 70 percent of the
world’s data resides on IBM
systems. IBM’s DB2 Universal
Database is a top choice
among customers,
and grew faster than the
industry in 1998.
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WHEN YOU TAKE A BUSINESS TO THE NET, you stake a lot
on the strength of your information technology
infrastructure. Things like your reputation,
brand and customer relationships. Your online
systems have to be able to handle – not just the
population of employees inside your business –
but the population, period. And never go down.
So critical e-business applications have to run
on enterprise servers and equally burly software
called “middleware.” In combination, they make
sure your application (and your reputation)
can handle unprecedented stress, unpredictable
spikes in usage, and that you’re ready when the
world comes calling.