Hitachi to release JP1 middleware for Linux this summer

Linux Today reader Hal Moroff reports that according to the March 23, 1999 Japan Computers subscription newsletter:

Hitachi will release its JP1 middleware for Linux.

This summer Hitachi plans to release its JP1 information system management middleware package for Linux and will price it about the same as the Windows NT version.

A growing number of corporate information system managers are seeing Linux as a viable operating system alternative.

Hitachi has 30% of the information system management middleware market in Japan.

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