Nearly 2.5 Million People to Manage Funds using IBM S/390 and RS/6000 servers Somers, N.Y (December 14, 1999) – The USDA National Finance Center has selected IBM S/390 and RS/6000 servers to run its new Thrift Savings Plan System, the 401K plan for all federal government employees. With nearly 2.5 million people enrolled in the […]
Includes All Development, Maintenance, Operation and Management for Ten Year Period Tokyo, Japan (December 14, 1999) – business solutions, including electronic banking, and enable it to manage costs while expanding its IT systems to meet the challenges of future growth.The work will be undertaken by IBM’s services arm, IBM Global Services, the world’s largest IT […]
To open two Accelerated Solutions Centers in Europe London, ENGLAND (December 14, 1999) – Ford and IBM have today announced a multi million dollar strategic services agreement over five years. The agreement involves the creation of purpose-designed Accelerated Solutions Centers (ASCs) in Essex, in the UK and in Cologne, Germany which will support Ford’s business […]
NORTH CASTLE, N.Y. (December 13, 1999) – -IBM Global Financing and Ernst & Young announced today that IBM Global Financing will provide financing to Ernst & Young LLP (E&Y) consulting clients, to help meet their total business solutions needs. Under the agreement, E&Y clients will be able to finance consulting services, as well as associated […]
Applications to Connect Back-End Business to the Internet SOMERS, NY (December 13, 1999) – -IBM today announced the first in a series of packaged end-to-end e-business applications for customers who want to connect their back-office to the Internet.The AS/400e-Domino solutions from IBM Business Partners Binary Tree, Clear Technologies, and Emerging Technology Solutions offer a combination […]
IBM and University of New Mexico Researchers to Build “Vista Azul” Hypercluster ALBUQUERQUE, NM (December 13, 1999) – IBM and the University of New Mexico (UNM) today announced a joint research project to integrate leading-edge IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputing technology running AIX, IBM’s UNIX operating system, with the fast-developing world of Linux superclusters. A Linux […]
Powerful IBM Server Runs Texas Employment Web Site Somers, N.Y (December 09, 1999) – The Texas Workforce Commission is harnessing the power of an IBM S/390 server to run “Hire Texas” (http://www.twc.state.tx.us), an online public job search system for the state of Texas.The Hire Texas system is designed to help facilitate the search between prospective […]
ViaVoice for Mac in Stores for the Holidays N/A (December 08, 1999) – IBM today announced the availability of ViaVoice Millennium Edition 1 – 08 Dec 1999: to-market continuous speech recognition software for the Macintosh platform.ViaVoice for Mac provides users with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface to perform everyday computer tasks, such as creating e-mail and […]
SAP Adopts DB2 Universal Database As Strategic Development and Production Platform WALLDORF, Germany, & SOMERS, N.Y. (December 07, 1999) – SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), the leading provider of inter-enterprise software solutions, and IBM, the worldwide leader in data management solutions, today announced an agreement to expand their global sales, marketing and development relationship. As part […]
SOMERS, N.Y. (December 07, 1999) – -IBM today announced a record-breaking Standard Application Benchmark result for SAP(TM) R/3(R) Release 4.0B inter-enterprise business solutions on the RS/6000 Model S80 Enterprise Server.The S80 server, with IBM’s DB2 Universal Database, supported 1,708 Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark users in the two-tier client/server benchmark configuration. These results follow the […]