Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsl!sdo
From: sdo@cbnewsl.att.com (scott.orshan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Transaction Processing under Unix -- Summary of Replies
Keywords: TUXEDO, OLTP
Message-ID: <1990Jun7.180442.9415@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 7 Jun 90 18:04:42 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In a previous article, I responded to some statements by Robert Claeson:

> >From: uunet!erbe.se!prc (Robert Claeson)
> >
> >I don't have any experience with it, but this is what I know:
> >
> >* Source license goes for ~$180,000.
> >* Consists of two parts -- System/T for terminal monitoring and
> >  System/D for database management.
> >* System/D is a home-grown database system with indexed files and all sorts
> >  of other facilities one need for transaction processing.
> >* It is possible to license only one of the parts.
> >* It is possible to modify an existing RDBMS and have it work with System/T.
> >  I believe that Oracle is porting their database system to work with Tuxedo.
> >
> >Robert
> >
>
[My Response]
>System/T is not a Terminal Monitor.  It is a Transaction Manager.
>Its two main functions are to implement the distributed Client/Server
>model and to enable and coordinate Distributed Transactions.
>This can be done on heterogeneous networks of UNIX machines.
>Client processes can be running front-ends on terminals (we supply
>a Forms package ourselves), and in that respect System/T can resemble
>a Terminal Monitor, but that is not its primary purpose.
>
>System/D is no more "home-grown" than any other DBMS.  The TUXEDO
>System, in one form or another, has been in use for over 7 years
>both inside and outside of AT&T.
>

Robert Claeson has informed me that he was just quoting from a presentation
made by someone from the UNIX Software Operation.  I also I realized
that I didn't post our European contact, so here is the correct information
for the TUXEDO contacts:

Enzo Greco		Glenn Rose	  Vijayakumar Vijayaratnam
201-522-5173		201-522-6477	  +44 81 567 7711
attunix!esg		attunix!uso!grr	  attunix!uel!vvk
esg@attunix.att.com	grr@uso.att.com	  vvk@uel.co.uk
					  (European Contact)


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Scott Orshan
201-522-5063
sdo@attunix.att.com