NCR has thrown its weight behind Microsoft Windows NT by announcing the formation of two worldwide organisations dedicated to developing and marketing products for the platform.
The Windows NT Business Unit will plan and implement Windows NT products and services for the NCR System 3000 family.
The Windows NT marketing team will develop Windows NT marketing and sales programmes for NCR's client and server product lines.
''The combination of NCR's symmetric multiprocessing expertise and Microsoft's software technology provides superior solutions for our mutual customers,'' said Paul Maritz, senior vice-president of the Windows NT system division at Microsoft.
''The formation of these groups, along with last month's opening of our Windows NT Global Support Centre, demonstrates a serious commitment to our mutual customers.'' NCR has big marketing plans for this quarter, including a scheme to migrate OS/2 customers to Windows NT, and another that involves developers of Windows NT applications.
It has other marketing strategies designed for workgroup/application server environments and others aimed at making prototypes of client-server applications quickly.