
General
News
Events
Mainframe Downsizing
Seminar
Hewlett-Packard will be holding a
Mainframe Downsizing Seminar
on June 13 in Milwaukee, Wiscon-
sin. Guest speakers will include
John Logan from the Aberdeen
Group.
For more information on the semi-
nar or to register, call
Marti Hegg
at Hewlett-Packard, 708-505-8800,
ext. 2704.
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highest of three categories. Others
servers. TREND helps control
include listed and user-referenced
costs and improve productivity in
solutions. This year's program
focuses on targeted
vertical mar-
kets with the addition of nine
PSPs for manufacturing and five
for health care. HP
V'ABs market
their software solutions on
HP 3000 and 9000 systems and
workstations.
HP wins
$8
million
workstation
contract
from GE Information
Services
HP has been awarded an $8 mil-
lion contract to
supl)ly GE Infor-
Conference
mation Services with
HP
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The 1991 MINNRUG Conference
is scheduled to be held July
10-1 1 at the Thunderbird Hotel
in Bloomington, Minnesota. The
theme for the HP
3000/9000 user's
group event will be "Achieving
Information Excellence."
For more information on the con-
ference or to register, call Colleen
Heutmaker at Hewlett-Packard,
612-644-1 100, ext. 705.
9000 Series 400
worltstations,
servers, software development
tools, software, and peripherals.
GE Information Services will use
the workstations and servers as
part of a worldwide information
services business
th~at provides
networking,
electro~~ic data inter-
change, business communications
messaging, and
cust,om applica-
tion development.
G.E Information
Services will use
SoftBench, a
software development environ-
ment, to create a new system
using C and C
+ +
languages.
HP
News
and
Reviews
New 1991 value-added 'TREND software
business
(VAB)
available on HP
9000
Premier solution Series
800
systems
program
and servers
HP has selected more than 175
VAHs closely aligned with HP's
target markets for membership in
the Premier Solution Provider
(PSP) category of HP's 1991
VAB
program. The PSP program is the
TREND advanced software
solutions from
R&D Systems in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, is
designed for wholesale distribu-
tors and will run on HP 9000
Series 800 business systems and
inventory management and cus-
tomer service. TREND features an
integrated financial management
distribution system, telemarket-
ing, service billing, parcel man-
agement, office automation, and
a fax interface.
Fuji Bank of Tokyo
orders
$7
million open
information system
Fyli Bank Ltd., the third largest
bank in the world, has chosen HP
as the chief supplier and architect
of an open systems-based com-
puter network for use at
Fuji
headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
The system will include HP 9000
Series 800 computers, HP
700B
display stations or X terminals,
HP
OpenView systems, software,
networking equipment, and
services.
HP and Mitsubishi
Electric announce
PA-RISC purchase and
licensing agreement
HP and Mitsubishi Electric Cor-
poration (MELCO) announced a
purchase and technology licens-
ing agreement related to HP's
standards-based Precision Archi-
tecture RISC (PA-RISC) products
and technology. MELCO will pur-
chase more than 10,000 HP-UX
based workstations and servers.
MELCO will use the computers as
a component of custom-developed
solutions to meet specific cus-
tomer requirements.
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HI'
Computer Update, June
1991
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