3M Australia is a 50-year-old subsidiary of 3M Worldwide. In late 1999, 3M Australia started planning an upgrade to PeopleSoft 8 in order to remain on supported software. Seeking an affordable, high-performance server platform for the upgrade, 3M investigated running DB2 on an Intel processor-based IBM eServer xSeries 350 machine running Microsoft Windows NT. Fortunately, DB2 Universal Database proved to be the kind of flexible information tool that brought out the ingenuity of the 3M Australia developers.
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