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IBM Expansion Of DB2 To HP-UX Helps Florida Power Corp.

The Florida Power Corp. is one example of a multivendor environment that is taking advantage of the ongoing expansion of IBM's DB2 relational database management system (RDBMS) to non-IBM platforms, said Scott Saunders, systems analyst/database administrator for the Florida-based utility, in an interview with Newsbytes.

Networking Focus At This Year's CeBIT

If you wander on to the IBM stands at this year's CeBIT Computer Faire, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd stumbled on to the Novell Pavilion by accident. The reason is simple. IBM has woken up to networking, and in particular, the Internet.

CeBIT - IBM Unveils ThinkPad 465E Series

IBM has taken the wraps off a budget range of ThinkPads. According to officials with Big Blue, the new ThinkPads offer the company's trademark style, innovation and reliability at the most affordable prices ever. The ThinkPad 365E series starts at just UKP 1670 ($2,500), with CD-ROM versions starting from around UKP 210 ($370) extra.

DEC Launches New HiNote Notebook Line

Digital Equipment Corp. (NYSE:DEC) has done over its HiNote line of notebook computers. The new HiNote lineup is entirely based on Intel Corp.'s (NASDAQ:INTC) Pentium processors.

Telephony Software Upgrade Supports 72 PCs

Artisoft Inc., (NASDAQ:ASFT) has introduced a new release of its Visual Voice Pro software for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Visual Voice is a telephony software toolkit.

Digital, SAP Unveil 1st R/3 For Windows NT On RISC

A newly unveiled deal to port SAP's R/3 to Digital Equipment Corp.'s AlphaServer running Windows NT, billed as bringing the first Windows NT implementation of R/3 for RISC, is targeted at the high end of the Windows NT market.

Updated Friday, March 15, 1996, at 1:00 pm Pacific time.