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EDITORIAL CONTACTS: PRNS4700255
Michelle Pritchard, HP, (408) 447-1259 or
Melissa Calvo, HP, (408) 447-5456
Keith Mary Rantas, IBM, (914) 642-4618
HP AND IBM ANNOUNCE CICS ON HP'S OPEN-SYSTEM
PLATFORMS
Cooperative Effort Enriches Platform Choices for Users
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 30, 1992 -- Hewlett-Packard
Company and IBM Corporation today announced that a full
implementation of IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS*)
software products will be available on HP's PA-RISC*-based computers.
CICS is an industry leader in on-line transaction-processing
(OLTP) applications and is used by more than 20,000 customers in more
than 90 countries worldwide. CICS currently is available only on IBM
platforms.
HP will distribute, market and support versions of CICS for its
own platforms under license from IBM. HP will provide CICS on its
open-systems-based HP 3000 and HP 9000 series of business computers
and workstations under their respective MPE/iX and HP-UX* operating
systems. Availability is expected for the second half of 1993. The CICS
software will be implemented on the Open Software Foundation's
Distributed Computing Environment (OSF/DCE) and Transarc's Encina
technology.
CICS on HP platforms will increase platform choices for users
building OLTP applications for open-systems environments because it will
provide consistent application programming interfaces. It also will
present an excellent computer solution for users through the
interoperability of a large breadth of IBM applications and HP's
high-performance systems.
"This exciting agreement, combined with our recent AIX
CICS/6000 announcement, demonstrates IBM's commitment to meeting
our customers' requirements and is the first step in extending the CICS
family beyond IBM platforms," said Ellen M. Hancock, IBM vice
president and general manager, Networking Systems line of business.
"We look forward to working with HP to provide CICS solutions for
their customers and to enhance CICS' position as the leading OLTP
product."
Willem P. Roelandts, an HP vice president and general manager
of HP's Computer Systems Organization, said, "Success in the open-
systems marketplace is predicated upon choice. In one bold move, HP
and IBM are bringing the flexibility of open systems to the familiar and
time-proven OLTP environment of CICS. In choosing open-systems
environments, customers will find HP's commercially tuned, cost-
effective platforms an excellent complement to the robust CICS
environment and the substantial base of CICS applications.
"This new solution will be a strong addition to the existing
capabilities available through HP's Channel Partners and right-sizing
consultants," Roelandts said.
Pat Sueltz, IBM CICS products manager, added that "HP's
support of CICS has reinforced IBM's belief that CICS has evolved in
meeting customer requirements and exploiting technology advances to
provide the best OLTP solution in the market for meeting diverse
customer and industry needs. This agreement will allow HP and IBM to
offer their respective customers compatible best-of-breed OLTP solutions,
with associated flexibility in choice of hardware platforms."
# # #
CICS is a trademark of International Business Machines Corp.
PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture-reduced-instruction-set
computing.
HP-UX is based on and is compatible with USL's UNIX* operating
system. It also complies with X/Open's* XPG3, POSIX 1003.1, FIPS
151-1 and SVID2 interface specifications.
UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories Inc. in the
U.S.A. and other countries.
X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the UK and other
countries.