| AS/400 In & Out |
| * Has more than 750,000 system installed since 1988. The AS/400 is the world's most popular multi-user business computer system * Has more than 18 million users sign-on every day * Is the only server that allows customers to run applications from four different operating system environments ? OS/400, UNIX, Windows NT/2000 and Linux ? simultaneously on a single server. * A single system can support up to 31 separate Linux partitions. * The i840 model continues to set new records for server-side Java performance, beating Sun and Hewlett-Packard (SPECjbb2000 benchmark). The i840 is also number one in the NotesBench benchmark for Lotus Domino scalability and performance. * Is installed in 95% of the FORTUNE 100 and 85% of the Fortune 500 * Boasts 99.9+% system availability * 52 percent of customers own four or more AS/400 systems * Are sold in more than 150 countries worldwide, and can display and accept information in 40 national languages * Has more than 8,000 IBM Business Partner and Independent Software Vendors Worldwide * Performance of high-end AS/400 systems has increased an average of 60 to 70 percent a year since 1990. AS/400's price / performance improvement has average over 30 percent a year during the period of 1988-1994 * The introduction of 64-bit RISC processors in the AS/400 has improved the price/performance gain to over 40%. The present product line scales from a single processor to a 24-way system and is in its seventh generation of 64-bit RISC technology. * 25,000 applications run on AS/400, as well as 3,000 client/server applications. Additional application are being added as software vendors from other platforms migrate their code to the AS/400 * Data Warehouse, Internet Connectivity/Electronic Commerce and Groupware/Lotus Notes are all available today on the AS/400 * Has more than 75% of AS/400 systems operate using client/server capabilities, with over 12 million PCs attached to AS/400's * Has more than 400,000 copies of DB2/400 (AS/400's integrated relational database) installed, IBM is the industry leader in the relational database market * Has the industry's largest suite of 64-bit applications, and is the only platform that preserves existing customers software investments - letting users instantly exploit the 64-bit environment when they upgrade to the new AS/400 Advanced Series with Power PC As microprocessors * Has a high-end AS/400 Advanced System that can support up to 7,000 attached workstations. AS/400 Advanced Server can now support up to 16 area networks each with hundreds of clients * Integrated PC Servers can be built into the AS/400 Advanced Series. This allows customers to manage their PC environments with greater control at a lower cost than stand-alone PC Servers |
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