By John Oates
Published: 9 July 1998 17:18 GMT
Siemens Nixdorf today released more details of its deal to supply the Nationwide building society with 800 servers and 7,900 PCs.
The roll-out will begin in October and should be complete by February. The PCs are Pentium II 333MHz machines and the servers are quad-capable Pentium Pros running Windows NT. The deal, unofficially valued at £8m, will also see the company move Nationwide's bespoke software onto the new system.
Andrew Gardner, MD at Siemens Nixdorf, said: "It is a phased implementation - we are not trying to do too much at once." He conceded that Windows NT is still not as secure or as stable as Unix, but claims it soon will be.
According to Gardener, the building society is not planning to take full advantage of its PCs' multimedia functions immediately, but is keen to try to future-proof its investment. Initially, one machine per branch will have full multimedia functions.
Nationwide refused to comment on the deal.
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