Editing Stratus Technologies (section)

==Products and customers==
Its legacy product line was originally based on [[Motorola]] [[MC68000]] processors (FT and XA series), and then migrated to [[Intel i860]] processors (XA/R series), then to [[Hewlett-Packard]]'s [[PA-RISC]] processors (Continuum series), and finally to [[Intel Xeon]] processors (V Series).  That line runs the [[Stratus VOS|VOS]] operating system, which originally had many features inspired by or derived from [[Multics]]. Other operating systems supported on the legacy platforms (XA/R, Jetta / Continuum)—[[HP-UX]] and a home-grown UNIX product called FTX (Fault-Tolerant UNIX)—are supported but no longer actively sold.

In June 2002, Stratus introduced the ftServer line of Intel-based servers, running Microsoft Windows 2000 and higher. The Stratus ftServer line sold today supports Windows Server, VMware vSphere, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://resource.stratus.com/datasheet/ftserver/ | title=No Unplanned Downtime &#124; High Availability Solutions Stratus ftServer }}</ref> The company sells models of ftServer designated as entry-level, mid-range and enterprise-class fault tolerant servers.

The company began offering Stratus Avance software in June 2008, a high availability product with virtualization built in. Avance runs on two general-purpose x86 servers and allows deployment of applications across high-availability virtual machines, freeing up existing x86 servers. The two servers comprising the Avance high-availability platform may be separated by up to three miles for purposes of disaster recovery and business continuity. Avance is intended to serve small-to-medium size businesses' need for affordable and simple high availability and virtualization.

Stratus has a large presence in [[Maynard, Massachusetts]], its U.S. headquarters, and in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], as well as several worldwide offices, in locations such as the [[UK]], the [[Netherlands]], [[South Africa]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Italy]], [[Spain]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[Singapore]], [[Hong Kong]], [[China]], [[Japan]] and  [[India]].

The company has a vast customer base, but popular types of its customers include banks and credit unions, emergency response centers (such as 911 in the USA), police departments, fire departments, hospitals, clinics, governments, credit card companies, stock exchanges, telcos/phone companies and Internet providers.