Stories about: Stratus Computer

Beginning July 1, the European Union will bar import of electronic components that include lead, mercury cadmium and several other substances. The law, known as the European Directive of Restriction of Hazardous Substances, or RoHS, has vendors scrambling to meet its deadline, but it is not without implications for non-European users.

Stratus Technologies is beefing up its telecom portfolio with the acquisition of Cemprus, bringing it telecommunications signaling software that it can combine with its redundant server platforms.

After three years and US$170 million spent on systems development that included more than 200 new servers, The Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. yesterday said it is prepared to launch its new SuperMontage electronic order display and execution system on July 29.

Six IT companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., have formed the Fault Tolerant Server Consortium (FTSC) to build greater awareness of advances in fault-tolerant computing on Intel-based systems running the Windows 2000 operating system.

Run important applications on Windows? A few years ago, fears of the blue screen of death would have frightened many companies away from entrusting their revenue-producing activities to a Windows platform. But Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 2000 Datacenter Server - the product and the program - is changing many minds about letting Windows into the glass house.

Getronics and Stratus Computer have joined forces to target the financial services industry with 3G (third-generation wireless) e-banking solutions.

Following the launch of its Windows 2000 Datacenter in late September, Microsoft have named the Australian vendors who have rolled out programs to support the product.

Next month when manufacturers begin to sell powerful PC servers to run the new Windows 2000 Datacenter Server software, the event will mark a significant shift in the way Microsoft sells and supports its most sophisticated operating system.

Every weekday morning around 8:45, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Inc. comes to life. Traders dart from broker booths to trading specialists, scribbling quotes on tiny pieces of pink paper. The specialists themselves are hard at work too, using specially designed keyboards to scroll through pages of data. This pace crescendos until the bell kicks off trading at 9:30 a.m., when it becomes downright frenetic. Scampers become sprints. Typing becomes flailing. For a few moments, the 3,300 people who live and die on the floor of the world's largest exchange are moving as quickly as humans possibly can.

ERG has concluded some substantial wheeling and dealing by entering a deal to buy a stake in a German smart card specialist, and by forging an alliance with regional infrastructure services provider Downer Group. Other prominant companies also played the markets at home and abroad

Stratus Computer DE has begun licensing its fault-tolerant server technology, initially by forging a deal with NEC Corp., in a move to push itself into the mainstream.