Westboro, MA Ð Data General Corporation and NeXT announced a partnership in August for Data General to resell NeXT workstations with their AViiON servers (see "Data General turns to NeXT," NeXTWORLD Extra, August 1922).
As part of the client/server solution, Data General will also port the NeXT NetInfo network-administration software to their servers for a more integrated management system, according to Stephanie Bigusiak, Data General manager of external communications.
Data General sells primarily to high-end vertical markets, including the government, manufacturing, and geographic information systems. The company hopes to make headway into the financial and health-care markets by comarketing its servers with the quick-development and multimedia capabilities of the NeXT.
NeXT's new DBKit and its capability to fashion front-end interfaces will play an important role in the client/server solution, said Bigusiak. AViiON servers currently support Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, and Informix relational databases.
For more information, contact Data General at 412/921-5401.