Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is now offering version 2.1 of its UTM Universal Transaction Monitor running on its own RM Unix systems on IBM Corp’s RS/6000 line and on Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP 9000 systems, with others to follow. Siemens Nixdorf claims 800 installations of its transaction processing monitor in Europe. It says UTM 2.1 provides distributed transaction processing in conjunction with its own, and IBM Corp mainframe environments, including CICS, IMS/DC and IMS/DB using the Transit-LU0 protocol. UTM 2.1 enables several applications to run in parallel over distributed systems, includes the X/Open Co X/A interface for database connection and supports the Oracle7 database. And Siemens also has a new entry-level RM400 Model 10 system, rated at 56.46 SPECint92. Using the MIPS Technologies Inc R4000SC RISC – which has 512Kb secondary cache – it has up to 256Mb RAM, 15.6Gb disk, 525Mb tape streamer, at from UKP20,000.
