September 2001
Tunisia may be the smallest country in North Africa, but its strategic coastal position has guaranteed it an eventful history: The Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arabs, Ottomans, and French have all called it home at one time or another. Today, Tunisia plays an important role in the region’s financial services environment, and Société Monetique Tunisie (SMT) is one of the stars. A few years ago, SMT—whose main shareholders are the post office and the country’s 10 largest banks—purchased two small NonStop servers on the used-equipment market.
The NonStop servers lived up to their reputation for high performance and continuous availability. So recently, when SMT set the ambitious goal of issuing 3 million credit cards in 2002 (and needed a global storage solution and more computing horsepower to do so), the company knew exactly what platform to buy. In September 2001, SMT purchased a four-processor NonStop S7400 server with ACI BASE24 application software. IBM competed for the sale, but lost.
"The NonStop solution is powerful, and it meets our business needs extremely well," notes SMT finance manager Habib Ben Ali. "It is also generating interest in the financial community beyond our borders." In fact, the Société Algérienne de Transaction Internationale Monetique—a similar financial services enterprise in neighboring Algeria—has already visited SMT and is interested in purchasing the same solution.
This news is published on NonStop Computing websites. September 2001.
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