TECHNOLOGY - March 30, 1994

Amdahl Forms Alliance: The manufacturer of large-scale computers said its alliance to develop new database servers was a preemptive strike against rival IBM, which will announce its own server next week. Servers are computers that provide file storage and/or database access for a group of personal computers hooked together on a network. Amdahl also launched a broad range of new products as part of a new strategy for supporting its existing system/390 data server. Amdahl joined forces with software maker Oracle Corp., nCUBE and Information Builders Inc. to deliver the first advanced database servers employing massively parallel processing technology, which uses hundreds of thousands of processors to offer more power and speed than common servers.