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S/390 The workhorse and performance leader
among enterprise servers. Last year, we cracked the
performance milestone of 1,000 MIPS (millions of
instructions per second) and notched more than 350
competitive wins.
AS/4 00 It’s quick to deploy and easy to run
(requiring little or no support staff). That’s one
reason 20 percent of new orders in the fourth
quarter of 1998 were from new customers. We
shipped AS/400s in record numbers last year, and
delivered a 94 percent performance improvement.
NETFINITY In 1998 – its first full year in the
marketplace – Netfinity set industry performance
standards and began delivering enterprise-class
technology to the industry-standard marketplace.
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TRANSACTION
PROCESSING
Transaction systems enable
disparate applications to
connect and interact. IBM’s
MQ Series is the de facto
message queueing standard.
SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT
IBM’s Tivoli subsidiary is a
leader in systems management
software and technology – and
continues to grow faster than
the industry.
SECURE
NETWORKING
With our SecureWay family
of products, IBM is the
market leader in secure
networking software, enabling
users to connect to the
network, authenticate their
identity, and do business
with security and reliability.