HP is a leader in worldwide personal-workstation market, according to IDC.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)--June 9, 1997--Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that, 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. International Data Corporation, it is a leader in the worldwide personal workstation Same as personal computer or workstation. market. In its new report, "The Worldwide Workstation Census, Year End 1996," IDC reported that in calendar year 1996, HP shipped 96,000 units of its HP Vectra XA, XU and XW PC Workstations, representing almost 12 percent of the market. "HP's success in the PC workstation market has been significant," said Keren Seymour, analyst at IDC. "The company has taken advantage of its long-term know-how and success in the 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). (1) system and Microsoft(R) Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R) environments to expand its overall market share in the technical market with its multiple product offerings." "Our decision to install HP Vectra XW Graphics PC Workstations in John Deere's engineering department was based on their high performance, quality reputation and technical support," said John Nywiede, manager, Computer Operations at John Deere, a world-leading producer of agricultural equipment. "Our experience and leadership in the UNIX system Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services workstation market has given us a decided advantage over vendors offering only PCs," said Boris Elisman, marketing manager for HP's Performance Desktop Computing computing - computer Operation. "Today's results from IDC confirm that HP is offering the right products for its customers." While many vendors are just entering the personal-workstation market with a single product, HP recently expanded its PC workstation line with a high-end version of its HP Vectra XW Graphics PC Workstation. Offering blazing 3-D graphics, the workstation was the first on the market with AccelECLIPSE graphics powered by the REALimage graphics engine from Evans & Sutherland Corp. This product complements the midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually HP Vectra XW Graphics PC Workstation with AccelPRO graphics and HP's award-winning 2-D PC workstation, the HP Vectra XU PC Workstation. The HP Vectra XU PC Workstation was the best-selling best·sell·er also best seller n. A product, such as a book, that is among those sold in the largest numbers. best Pentium(R) Pro-processor system in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in 1996, according to Audits and Surveys Worldwide. HP PC Workstations are targeted at banks and financial institutions for trading and financial analysis. In addition, they are used by software developers, mechanical-design engineers, electronic-design engineers and digital-content-creation engineers. HP offers a broad family of industry-standard PCs and PC workstations in its commercial and performance HP Vectra lines. Products range from the entry-level Vectra VE, midrange Vectra VL and advanced Vectra VA PCs for professionals using business applications, to the powerful high-performance Vectra XA, Vectra XU and Vectra XW PC Workstations for the most demanding commercial and technical users. ABOUT HP HP is the official information-technology hardware and maintenance supplier to the 1998 World Cup soccer tournament. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 114,600 employees and had revenue of $38.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com or users can go directly to HP Vectra PC and PC workstation information at http://www.hp.com/go/vectra . -0- Note to Editors: Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows NT is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Pentium is a U.S. registered trademark of Intel Corp. (1)UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open(R) Company Limited. X/Open is a registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the U.K. and other countries. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Company Larry Sennett, 408/553-2916 larry_sennett@hp.com or Copithorne & Bellows bellows, expansible, gas-tight chamber used to pump or store a gas. One of the simplest and most familiar types of bellows is the manual one used for providing a forced draft to a fire. The expansible chamber consists of a leather bag with pleated sides. for HP Jon Weisblatt, 408/343-5774 jon.weisblatt@cbpr.com |
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