Giving another painful turn to the downsizing ratchet putting the bite on IBM Corp’s profits, Computer Associates International Inc, Islandia, New York has got together with Beaverton, Oregon-based Sequent Computer Systems Inc and agreed to put its systems and information management products, and business applications on Sequent’s Symmetry 2000 systems. The partnership provides for joint development and marketing of Computer Associates’ CA-Unicenter, CA-DB, CA-DB:Generator and CA-Classic/Open products. Sequent will become the first open systems vendor to offer a large-scale symmetric multiprocessing implementation of Computer Associates’ products for Unix. Sequent will also work with Computer Associates to develop an enhanced version of CA-DB SQL-nased database management system for the Dynix/ptx symmetric multiprocessing Unix. C-Unicenter is a system for data centre management in a distributed open systems environment, designed to maximise operational efficiency in storage management, production control, data centre administration, resource accounting and security. CA-DB:Generator is a set of application development tools and CA-Classic/Open is a fully integrated personnel package. The products should all arrive within 12 months.
