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EIA calls for action on US imports
DBMS market to grow 16-fold by 1990 The revenues of DBMS (database management systems) will grow 16-fold between 1980 and 1990, from $250M to $4000M, according to a report from Strategic Inc. The top five DBMS vendors control almost 70 per cent of 1981 DBMS revenues. The report says that the market share of these vendors will be reduced over the next five years because four of the five major vendors do not yet offer a Jelational database and none of the top five vendors has yet produced a product for the most rapidly growing sector of the DBMS market, the desktop computer. The five dominant DBMS vendors are •
IBM, the company with the largest number of DBMS user. In the future IBM will expand its commitment to relational databases and will incorporate microprogrammed accelerator functions in its storage and retrieval functions • Cincom, who produce Total, is diversifying by developing manufacturing and financial applications. A teleprocessor monitor and a data
dictionary have also been added to their product line. Cincom has yet .to announce a back-end hardwareoriented DBMS system. The strongest Cincom asset is its 3000 user base • Cullinane, like Cincom is expanding its product line from IDMS (its DBMS) to include software which allows migration from other databases to IDMS, a manufacturing package and a financial package. Cullinane is entirely tied to the IBM 360/370 architecture and is thus vulnerable to the new IBM DBMS innovations • Software AG's Abadas is 'easy to use'. The company is not developing applications software for its DBMS system • Intel, after failing to develop its own hardware backend processor, has acquired MRI of Austin, Texas, USA, and the two companies are now working jointly on a back-end processor. Intel has indicated that plans to build applications oriented machines The report analyses back end processors which it indicates are designed primarily to offload database process: ing from the CPU.
Dataproducts expand into Europe Recognizing a growing market for microsystems, Dataproducts are changing their marketing strategy. The company, which claims to be the world's largest independent printer manufacturer, has Until now traded only with major OEM systems builders (this means almost all mainframe makers except ICL), the local sales staff acting as agents. Now;. with what they call 'local trading' they will sell in local currency, through companies
M I O0 matrix printer with raster graphics from Data/)roducts.
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in UK, France, Austria and Germany, to the smaller OEMs and their own distributor network-though not yet to the end user. These companies will be served by a new central Customer Services Division for Europe, based in Dublin. Here, at Dataproducts' European manufacturing headquarters, the division will also be able to feed back customer response to the design team. Manufacture in Eire will soon be moving to a new 19300m 2 factory at Clanshaugh, near Dublin. There they will produce the recently announced M100 series of matrix printers and models B300, B600 and B900 band printers. They hope to supply a thrid of Dataproducts world volume from Dublin, supplying Europe and South America. (Dataproducts International
Limited, Index House, Ascot, Berks SL5 7EU, UK. Tel." (0990)23377. Telex: 849426)
The report, 'DBMS Planning: Vendor apportunities and user selection strategies', costs £560 and is available from IPI, 134 Holland Park
A venue, London Wl I 4UE, UK. Tel." 01-221 0998. Telex: 22861
16-bit 2nd source deal Zilog have signed a second-source agreement with SGS-ATES covering Zilog's 16-bit Z8000 microprocessor family. The agreement adds several Zilog devices to the range of Z8000 family members, which SGS will now produce. These include the Z8003 and Z8004 virtual memory processing units, the Z8015 paged memory management unit. The Z8003 and Z8004 VMPUs are both pin and binary code compatible with the Z8001 and Z8002 CPUs respectively and offer an ABORT function on a previously unused pin, as well as an 'atomic' test and set instruction. In a virtual memory implementation, the CPU may attempt to reference a logical address which is not in the primary memory. If this happens, the ABORT function allows the execution of the instruction to be discontinued, the addressed data to be brought into primary memory and the instruction to be restarted. This allows the CPU to be left in a well-defined state and, therefore, allows software to recover from aborted instructions.
EIA calls for action on US imports The US Electronic Industries Association has urged Congress to take action 'to reduce foreign governments i intervention so that US firms can compete on a fair basis'. The EIA is also encouraging the amendment of antitrust (monopoly) laws to promote joint research. Part of a four-member panel of trade associations representing electronics-based high-technology industries, the Association demonstrated fears about 'other nations'. ..... subsidized government financing of exports'. The EIA is testifying before a House Ways and Means Subcommittee.
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IBM, the company with the largest number of DBMS user. In the future IBM will expand its commitment to relational databases and will incorporate microprogrammed accelerator functions in its storage and retrieval functions • Cincom, who produce Total, is diversifying by developing manufacturing and financial applications. A teleprocessor monitor and a data
dictionary have also been added to their product line. Cincom has yet .to announce a back-end hardwareoriented DBMS system. The strongest Cincom asset is its 3000 user base • Cullinane, like Cincom is expanding its product line from IDMS (its DBMS) to include software which allows migration from other databases to IDMS, a manufacturing package and a financial package. Cullinane is entirely tied to the IBM 360/370 architecture and is thus vulnerable to the new IBM DBMS innovations • Software AG's Abadas is 'easy to use'. The company is not developing applications software for its DBMS system • Intel, after failing to develop its own hardware backend processor, has acquired MRI of Austin, Texas, USA, and the two companies are now working jointly on a back-end processor. Intel has indicated that plans to build applications oriented machines The report analyses back end processors which it indicates are designed primarily to offload database process: ing from the CPU.
Dataproducts expand into Europe Recognizing a growing market for microsystems, Dataproducts are changing their marketing strategy. The company, which claims to be the world's largest independent printer manufacturer, has Until now traded only with major OEM systems builders (this means almost all mainframe makers except ICL), the local sales staff acting as agents. Now;. with what they call 'local trading' they will sell in local currency, through companies
M I O0 matrix printer with raster graphics from Data/)roducts.
vol 6 no 2 march 1982
in UK, France, Austria and Germany, to the smaller OEMs and their own distributor network-though not yet to the end user. These companies will be served by a new central Customer Services Division for Europe, based in Dublin. Here, at Dataproducts' European manufacturing headquarters, the division will also be able to feed back customer response to the design team. Manufacture in Eire will soon be moving to a new 19300m 2 factory at Clanshaugh, near Dublin. There they will produce the recently announced M100 series of matrix printers and models B300, B600 and B900 band printers. They hope to supply a thrid of Dataproducts world volume from Dublin, supplying Europe and South America. (Dataproducts International
Limited, Index House, Ascot, Berks SL5 7EU, UK. Tel." (0990)23377. Telex: 849426)
The report, 'DBMS Planning: Vendor apportunities and user selection strategies', costs £560 and is available from IPI, 134 Holland Park
A venue, London Wl I 4UE, UK. Tel." 01-221 0998. Telex: 22861
16-bit 2nd source deal Zilog have signed a second-source agreement with SGS-ATES covering Zilog's 16-bit Z8000 microprocessor family. The agreement adds several Zilog devices to the range of Z8000 family members, which SGS will now produce. These include the Z8003 and Z8004 virtual memory processing units, the Z8015 paged memory management unit. The Z8003 and Z8004 VMPUs are both pin and binary code compatible with the Z8001 and Z8002 CPUs respectively and offer an ABORT function on a previously unused pin, as well as an 'atomic' test and set instruction. In a virtual memory implementation, the CPU may attempt to reference a logical address which is not in the primary memory. If this happens, the ABORT function allows the execution of the instruction to be discontinued, the addressed data to be brought into primary memory and the instruction to be restarted. This allows the CPU to be left in a well-defined state and, therefore, allows software to recover from aborted instructions.
EIA calls for action on US imports The US Electronic Industries Association has urged Congress to take action 'to reduce foreign governments i intervention so that US firms can compete on a fair basis'. The EIA is also encouraging the amendment of antitrust (monopoly) laws to promote joint research. Part of a four-member panel of trade associations representing electronics-based high-technology industries, the Association demonstrated fears about 'other nations'. ..... subsidized government financing of exports'. The EIA is testifying before a House Ways and Means Subcommittee.
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