By John Oates, 4 May 1999 16:45
NEWS IBM is to ship its 'G6' mainframe computer from 28 May - a month ahead of schedule. The machine, officially called the S/390 Parallel Enterprise Server - Sixth Generation, is capable of 1.6 million instructions per second. Its early release gives Big Blue a few months grace before rival, Hitachi Data Systems brings out its machine in September. IBM claimed ecommerce has given a major boost to the mainframe market, which had been regarded as a fading technology. For more information see http://www.s390.ibm.com/announce/
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