Fujitsu/Microsoft: mission critical
p2pnet.net News:- Fujitsu and Microsoft will work together to provide mainframe capability on open-standard IT platforms for ‘mission-critical’ environments, they say in a statement.
This means they’ll collaborate in the development of Fujitsu’s next-generation Intel Itanium-based server running and optimized for Windows Server 2003 and Longhorn, as well as in platform integration and services and customer support.
Under their "expanded" global alliance, the two companies say they’ll:
- Integrate Microsoft .NET software into Fujitsu’s TRIOLE
- Reinforce support for customers running Windows in mission-critical environments by establishing a joint engineering support team in Redmond, Washington
- Collaborate in software development to improve the interoperability between Microsoft and Fujitsu software and to extend the capabilities of Fujitsu’s software tools designed to help customers move mission-critical infrastructure and applications to Microsoft .NET software
"The companies will collaborate on a worldwide basis, targeting revenues of 800 billion yen (US $7.2 billion) in 2007 from Fujitsu sales of hardware systems, software products and services for platform businesses based on Microsoft technologies," they state.
Fujitsu has also said it’ll work more closely with Sun by, "merging their Sparc processor-based server product lines by 2006," says Techworld here.
"The Sparc-based machines compete with Windows servers. Asked for a forecast of future sales of Windows and Sparc-based servers, Akikusa said he expects Fujitsu will be selling ’similar’ levels of each platform in 2007."
One hopes Microsoft will have ironed out its many and various security problems before it gets serious with Fujitsu because of late, the word ‘critical’ has been used to describe holes rather than missions.
