Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme, AG (SNI) was formed in 1990 by the merger of Nixdorf Computer and the Data Information Services (DIS) division of

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', ''E ...

. It functioned as a separate company within Siemens. It was the largest

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology syste ...

company in

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until 1999, when it was split into two:

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and Wincor Nixdorf. Wincor Nixdorf took over all banking and retail related business.

Products

SNI sold: * BS2000 and SINIX operating systems *BS2000

mainframe computer A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise ...

s *a number of databases *SNI

RISC In computer engineering, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks. Compared to the instructions given to a complex instruction set comp ...

-based RM-x00

server Server may refer to: Computing *Server (computing), a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called clients Role * Waiting staff, those who work at a restaurant or a bar attending customers and su ...

s *a variety of other hardware and software products (from Personal Computers to SAP R/3). * ComfoDesk – a GUI shell for enterprise usersSiemens Nixdorf: ComfoDesk (1990)

References

Defunct computer companies of Germany Diebold Nixdorf Siemens Defunct technology companies of Germany Computer hardware companies of Germany Computer companies established in 1990 Computer companies disestablished in 1999 1990 establishments in Germany 1999 disestablishments in Germany {{Germany-company-stub

Products

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