Siemens Nixdorf USA, based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is launching an Enterprise Systems Division to peddle its RM lines as database and communications servers in North America. The launch follows the appointment of Joe Maguire, former Sun Microsystems Inc sales director, as its new vice-president of Unix systems. Its servers, currently getting favourable benchmark reports, are the MIPS R4600-based RM200, and the R4400-based RM400 and RM600. Around 1,100 of Siemens Nixdorf’s 4,000-odd employees are based in the US. It claims to be the leading Unix systems supplier in Europe in the $100,000 to $1m price bracket, with 30% of the market according to International Data Corp figures, against 11% for IBM Corp, 9% Sequent Computer Systems Inc, 8% for ICL Plc, 6% for Data General Corp, 6% for Sun Microsystems Inc, 5% for Hewlett-Packard Co, 4% for AT&T Corp and 21% others. Siemens Nixdorf US does around $250m from its existing retail systems, printer and services divisions at 100 locations. The Enterprise Systems Division will offer direct sales, service, support and a conversion and testing centre headed by Tony D’Errico, former vice-president at Integris.
