Hewlett-Packard Co is stepping up its all-out assault on IBM Corp’s AS/400 base by getting closer to UniComp Inc, the Marietta, Georgia company that owns Unibol Ltd in Northern Ireland. The Newtonabbey-based unit has joined Hewlett-Packard in a development and co-operative marketing agreement to provide the Unibol400 application environment under HP-UX on the HP 9000 family of business servers. Launched last month (CI No 2,528), Unibol400 provides an AS/400 envrionment under Unix and NT. Unibol400 for HP 9000 servers is expected to be available in the first quarter 1995. Unibol400 is claimed to offer significant performance improvement while maintaining the look and feel of the original AS/400 applications.
