COMPAQ ATTACKS HIGH-END UNIX MARKET WITH ALPHASERVER GS SERIES.Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) announced an aggressive attack on the $23 billion high-end UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). market with the launch of its new AlphaServer GS Series systems. Targeting dot-coms as well as customers in telecommunications, high-performance technical computing High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) refers to the application of high performance computing (HPC) to technical, as opposed to business or scientific, problems (although the lines between the various disciplines are necessarily vague). , healthcare and financial services, the new AlphaServers are optimized to support the most demanding e-business applications and customer environments. With over 200 systems already sold, Compaq anticipates $1 billion in revenues form AlphaServer GS Series sales during 2000 and expects to double its UNIX market share within target markets in the next three to four years. The new AlphaServer GS Series systems claims to offer the most robust performance and highest availability of any RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. server on the market today, surpassing offerings from Sun, HP and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Early adopters of the new AlphaServer GS Series include e-businesses such as E*Trade, Northern Light and Lycos. To expand Compaq's customer base within its target markets, Compaq is executing a number of aggressive marketing and go-to-market programs with Oracle as well as existing and new ISV partners. Larry Ellison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Oracle Corp., said: "Compaq and Oracle have embraced the Internet as the standard model for computing, and today are taking customers to the forefront of e-business. Oracle software, coupled with the power of Compaq's AlphaServer GS series, creates one of the industry's most robust and reliable platforms for e-business." |
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