IBM Wins German Bank Thin Client Deal

Computergram International, August 24, 1999

GAD, the German data processing center for a group of banks, has gone to IBM Corp for 12,500 IBM network stations, which will be used in 400 local branches. The order is thought to be IBM's largest sale of network computers in Europe. The clients will be served by OS/2-based servers running GAD's application software.

GAD currently has 60,000 workstations, most of them PCs, and says it intends to eventually replace around half of its PCs with thin clients. Meanwhile, the UK's CGU Plc, a major insurance company, has bought another 2,500 thin clients from IBM. It has previously bought 4,000 clients.