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| 31 | In the US , Oracle Corp has introduced a master application programming interface — middleware in its terminology — to connect software running on heterogeneous clients to disparate servers and databases . |
| 32 | Unisys Corp has introduced a clustering system for its 2200 series mainframes that it describes as a highly parallel processing technology yielding significantly higher levels of system performance for mainframe servers . |
| 33 | Nashville , Tennessee , Arnet Corp has introduced an X-Windows facsimile viewer programme for Intel iAPX-86 Unix systems : prices start at $1,300 . |
| 34 | As a step in this direction , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp has signed a service alliance agreement with Computer Sciences Corp , El Segundo , California to pursue systems integration business in the wireless telecommunications market . |
| 35 | Opportunistically , Roy , Utah-based Iomega Corp has signed a letter of intent to become exclusive worldwide distributor for Nomai SA 's cartridge disks that are compatible with SyQuest Technology Inc drives and over which SyQuest has sued Nomai , trying to prevent the French company from manufacturing and selling cartridges for its drives . |
| 36 | Compaq Computer Corp has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Stone Group Co Ltd , China 's largest private computer distributor , giving it access to Stone 's 100-plus sales outlets : it already has agreements with five other distributors for the vast Chinese market . |
| 37 | Naperville , Illinois-based Unir Corp has signed a distribution agreement with AT&T to sell and support AT&T 's eight-year old object programming language and development environment C3 . |
| 38 | AT&T Co 's NCR Corp has signed an OEM contract for NetLabs Inc 's new Overlord network management technology for use in its StarSentry product line . |
| 39 | IBM Corp has signed an OEM agreement with Synchronix Diffusion SA , Paris , France , for SX-M-View software which allows users to hot-link applications into graphic X-Terminal environments . |
| 40 | Salt Lake City , Utah-based Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp has signed an agreement with Namco Ltd , Japanese creator of electronic games for technical and market co-operation to explore the possibility of using Evans & Sutherland 's real time graphics products to assist Namco in creating the next generation of amusement arcade games machines . |
| 41 | Dun & Bradstreet Corp has acquired a majority interest in Gartner Group Inc for $33m from Information Partners Capital Fund LP , which financed the company 's buy-out from Saatchi & Saatchi Plc ; Gartner Group was previously controlled by Boston-based Information Partners , a venture capital firm in which Dun & Bradstreet is a limited partner . |
| 42 | NEC Corp has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which has placed the A-1 commercial paper rating of the NEC Industries Netherlands BV finance subsidiary on CreditWatch with negative implications , citing intensifying competition from local and international firms in Japan 's personal computer market , creating further pressure on profitability . |
| 43 | Troubles continue to pile up for Sequoia Systems Inc and now Ultimate Corp has filed a lawsuit against it alleging among other things that Sequoia has sold and attempted to sell its computer systems and maintenance services directly to Ultimate 's dealers and customers in violation of its contractual obligations , that it has disparaged and defamed Ultimate to such customers and dealers , and has interfered with Ultimate 's relationships with such customers and dealers . |
| 44 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp has filed a patent infringement suit against Conner Peripherals Inc over a patent relating to intelligent disk drives — last year Conner and Alps Electric USA Ltd bought the patents of the bankrupt PrairieTek Corp and Western Digital said it expected Conner to sue it based on two of these PrairieTek patents and on two patents developed by Conner , and its own suit is a pre-emptive strike . |
| 45 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 46 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 47 | IBM Corp has launched a version of OSF/1 , but only in the ultra low-volume mainframe version of AIX , but Groupe Bull SA is quite happy to add bits of Foundation technology to its Berkeley Unix brought up to Unix System V.3.2 level , and Hewlett-Packard Co is taking the same tack with HP-UX . |
| 48 | Informix Corp has bought a stake of about 15% in struggling IntelliCorp Inc , developer of the Knowledge Engineering Environment , ProKappa and Kappa-PC . |
| 49 | Denton , Texas-based Scott Instruments Corp has won a development and distribution agreement with Silicon Graphics Inc for its speech recognition systems for workstations but terms were n't disclosed : speech-aware Silicon Graphics workstations , expected to be available in the second half of the year , will respond to spoken commands . |
| 50 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 51 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 52 | Needham , Massachusetts-based Cognex Corp has won an OEM contract from Tokyo Seimitsu Co Ltd , a manufacturer of semiconductor processing equipment for machine vision systems worth $2m over two years . |
| 53 | Santa Clara , California-based Mercury Interactive Corp has opened a UK subsidiary in London : Mercury International UK Ltd will market the firm 's XRunner , an application test suite . |
| 54 | Mr Truman has made a number of discoveries and new attributions , not without correcting even the minutest mistake in the previous catalogue . |
| 55 | Lane has breathed a sigh of relief that he therefore can not be caught this week , for Mark James ( 5th ) is his closest rival present and he is almost £75,000 points behind . |
| 56 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 57 | So , when the play starts making a lot , I get this extra money on top of my royalty ! ’ |
| 58 | British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex . |
| 59 | ‘ Let's pretend our train has got 25 loads on it , let's pretend British Rail has got a locomotive which can actually pull 25 loads over Shap Fell and let's assume it is 100 per cent full , ’ he continued . |
| 60 | BRITISH Rail has launched a winter sale , with cut-price deals on long-distance Saver tickets . |