Sparcsystems builder Axil Workstations Inc has some new servers up its sleeve, but couldn’t quite bring itself to unveil the things in Europe a couple of weeks ago as it had originally planned. Instead it has pushed them out to a US launch next month. The Hyundai Electronics America Inc unit, which has its own ASIC collection, is expected to exploit what it perceives to be a performance and configuration weakness in Sun Microsystems Inc’s SparcServer 1000 line to drive the new servers to market. It is currently waiting for SunSoft Inc to get its Solaris 2.5 implementation together so that it can harden its UltraSparc prototypes into product form. Indeed, it is apparently the Solaris 2.5 issues such as support for 64-bit applications that Axil says is holding back the whole programme.
