COMPAQ & UNISYS PARTNER TO DELIVER 32-PROCESSOR SERVER PLATFORMS FOR WINDOWS 2000 DATACENTER SERVER.Driving industry-standard architecture into the highest levels of the data center, Compaq (Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX, www.compaq.com) Compaq was the leading PC manufacturer when it was acquired by HP in 2002. Founded in 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, one year later the company shipped 53,000 PC-compatible COMPAQ Portables, resulting in $111 Computer Corp. and Unisys Corp. announced the signing of a letter of intent under which Compaq will deliver Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing See CMP. (architecture, parallel) cellular multiprocessing - (CMP) The partitioning of processors into separate computing environments running different operating systems. (CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information ) based 32-processor platforms under the Compaq ProLiant brand. The final agreement with Compaq is expected to be completed within 60 days, and should have a potential value to Unisys of approximately $400 million over a two-year period. The relationship will join the powerful and scalable Unisys CMP processor architecture with Compaq's industry-standard server expertise to meet ultra-demanding single server e-business and data center requirements. The agreement is a component of Compaq's ProLiant eGeneration strategy to provide customers with breakthrough enterprise economics on industry standards-based solutions, as well as provide new and higher levels of service and support. The Compaq ProLiant servers resulting from the relationship with Unisys will provide a new level of reliability, availability and scalability for industry standards-based platforms according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mary McDowell Mc·Dow·ell , Ephraim 1771-1830. American surgeon who performed (1809) the first recorded ovariotomy. , VP and General Manager of Compaq's Industry Standard Server Division. George Gazerwitz, president, Unisys Systems and Technology, said: "Working together, both Unisys and Compaq will use the Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system See network operating system. on the innovative Unisys CMP architecture to provide the most powerful performance available in a single industry standards-based server. CMP's excellent performance will give customers the ability to deploy industry-standard solutions supporting mission-critical business environments." |
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