IBM: Serving the Golden Tax Project With State of the Art pSeries UNIX Servers

IBM: Serving the Golden Tax Project With State of the Art pSeries UNIX Servers

IBM has won the final bid in a government procurement for the purchase of UNIX® systems by the State Administration of Taxation for the Provincial UNIX Platform Project, benefiting from the superior cost-performance ratio of the state of the art IBM eServer p5 servers.

The State Administration of Taxation will purchase a number of IBM eServer p5 UNIX servers for the taxation system’s province-level Data Center Consolidation, replacing products of IBM competitors. Winning this bid has furthered IBM’s commitment to a long term, strategic partnership with the national taxation administration.

The Third-Phase Golden Tax Project marks a new achievement for the modernization of China’s taxation system. The overall objective of the project, as detailed by the State Administration of Taxation and as part of the guiding principle of integration, is “One Platform, Two-Stage Processing, Three Coverages & Four Systems.” In line with this, an application system platform based upon a uniform tax specification will be established in 4 to 5 years.

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