HP and AmericaOne Launch Online Poster Store to Share the Excitement of the America's Cup 2000.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1999-- Exclusive, Large-format, Souvenir Posters Available to Web-site Visitors Hewlett-Packard Company, the exclusive IT sponsor to AmericaOne, the San Francisco-based America's Cup America's Cup: see sailing. America's Cup Most prestigious trophy in international yachting competition. First offered under another name in Britain in 1851, the cup was won easily by the America from New York and subsequently became known as the 2000 challenger on behalf of the St. Francis Yacht Club, today announced the launch of an online poster store on the AmericaOne Web site at http://www.americaone.org. The announcement was made as the AmericaOne team begins Round Robin 1 of the Louis Vuitton Cup
The Louis Vuitton Cup is one of the most famous and prestigious competitions in the sport of yachting because of its relationship to the America's Cup. in Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , where it must qualify before competing for sailing's most coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. trophy -- the America's Cup. Throughout the Louis Vuitton Cup and America's Cup events, visitors to the AmericaOne Web site will be able to select from exclusive images of the AmericaOne sailboat and crew in action, taken by Sharon Green Sharon Green (born around 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy and romance. She is a graduate of New York University. She is divorced with three adult sons. , the official AmericaOne photographer. As the race progresses, new images will be photographed, scanned in high-resolution and posted to the Web site twice a week. To order these exclusive souvenir poster prints, visitors can select the desired images from the online photo gallery. The images are then instantaneously downloaded to HP Certified Print Centers around the globe. Here, the posters are printed in superb color using the HP DesignJet printing system -- large-format printers, inks and media -- and sent directly to the customer. The service costs just $19.95 (U.S.) per 24 inch x 36 inch poster. "The Web site will feature current racing images, so that fans can share in the excitement of AmericaOne's quest for Verb 1. quest for - go in search of or hunt for; "pursue a hobby" quest after, go after, pursue look for, search, seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the the Cup," said Gina von Esmarch, AmericaOne Marketing Director. "Our photographer will be capturing some of the most gripping moments of the race, and HP's online poster store will enable us to not only share the excitement with visitors to our Web site but also provide them with an exclusive souvenir." To create the AmericaOne HP online poster store, HP has teamed with MediaFlex.com, a supplier of e-commerce solutions for the digital-printing industry. The company will create the online gallery of images on the AmericaOne Web site and manage order processing and fulfillment. This kind of alliance is an example of HP's move into providing electronic services on the Internet. These posters also will be available throughout the race from HP's own large-format printing Web site at http://www.hp.com/go/designjet. As IT sponsor to AmericaOne, HP also has provided the technology that will power the AmericaOne Web site. This includes an HP 9000 R-Class server with 256MB memory running on the HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1) operating environment, an 18GB SE hard-disk drive, an HP DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. drive and HP ProCurve networking switches and hubs. Similar HP technology also is being used to power the Louis Vuitton Cup Web site at http://www.louisvuittoncup.com. HP is an official technology partner of the Louis Vuitton site and is providing equipment and services to power the site. About AmericaOne AmericaOne is dedicated to recapturing the America's Cup by applying U.S. technology in aerodynamics aerodynamics, study of gases in motion. As the principal application of aerodynamics is the design of aircraft, air is the gas with which the science is most concerned. , computer equipment, hydrodynamics hydrodynamics: see mechanics. Hydrodynamics The study of fluids in motion. The study is based upon the physical conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy. , naval architecture, sail design and structural engineering to America's Cup sailboat design. Operating since June 1, 1996, AmericaOne is the challenger on behalf of San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club. AmericaOne technology partners and top-level sponsors include Ford Motor Company/Visteon, Hewlett-Packard Company, Telcordia Technologies/SAICand United Technologies Corp. For additional information on AmericaOne, please contact Gina von Esmarch at: gvonesmarch@americone.org. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services. HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group 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). 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group. |
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