February 1999
- Compaq to wing Sun --
like Icarus?
- «If anyone thinks that Eckhard Pfeiffer, CEO of Compaq, does not have aims at world
domination, let these few words in a Q&A at the gruesome Landmark Hotel on Tuesday
this week sink in.»
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- IBM to fab Compaq's
Alphas
- «Sources very close to Compaq told The Register yesterday that her company has struck a
deal with IBM Micro to make its Alpha microprocessors.»
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- HP weak link in Merced
chain
- «Sources close to Hewlett Packard said today that it was pursuing its own course on
re-iteration of the PA-RISC chips, despite the company's close connection with Intel, on
Merced.»
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- Network Appliance hits
expectations
- «Network Appliance, a company with a new approach to data storage, met Wall Street
expectations today for its quarterly earnings, with revenues driven by a sales surge in
Asia and Europe.»
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- Enterprise
Vision: Compaq Clarifies Service Strategy
- «Compaq Computer Corp. last week moved to clarify its enterprise strategy by
eliminating conflicts between its direct-sales and service organizations and its
enterprise partners while solidifying its future enterprise plans.»
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- Compaq's Net
Play -- The System Vendor's Enterprise Strategy Will Hinge On Internet Computing And
E-Commerce Solutions
- «With nearly $32 billion in sales last year,Compaq has already met its goal of becoming
one of the world's top three computer vendors by 2000. Now, the company is embarking on a
new challenge-it wants to become the industry leader in products and services for advanced
Internet-based networks. But there's a catch: Compaq's competitors are moving in the same
direction.»
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- PC Server Due With
Internal Fibre Storage
- «A small company plans next week to introduce a PC server that uses innovative hardware
technology to provide high performance and reliability. »
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- Enterprise
Vision: Compaq Clarifies Service Strategy
- «Compaq Computer Corp. last week moved to clarify its enterprise strategy by
eliminating conflicts between its direct-sales and service organizations and its
enterprise partners while solidifying its future enterprise plans.»
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- Compaq
delivers on Alpha
- «Compaq Computer Corp. last week announced its long-awaited and oft-delayed XP1000
Alpha-based workstation. The workstation, Compaq's first such effort after acquiring
Digital Equipment Corp. last year, offers Compaq's 500MHz Alpha 21264 processor with 4MB
of Level 2 cache and comes with either Windows NT 4.0 or Compaq's Tru64 Unix.»
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- Softway
Preps 64-Bit Interix For Unix on NT
- «Although Windows 2000 has yet to ship, Softway Systems Inc. is already gearing up to
help users who want to implement the forthcoming 64-bit operating system.»
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- Firms seek to end
connection rift
- «IBM, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard hope to close an industry rift and merge their plan
for the future of server architecture with Intel's plans, executives said today, although
a truce is likely still a long way off. »
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- Compaq thumps Win64
tub
- «News reaches us from our US insider at Compaq that the company has opened a Win64
porting centre in Bellevue.»
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- Microsoft, Intel fall
out over Merced
- «Sources close to Intel architects told The Register late today that there is now a
ruckus between them and engineers from Microsoft.»
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- Sluttish Merced still
undead
- «Intel's Merced processor is still on track for release in the middle of next year, the
chip goliath still insists. But stories that it and Microsoft have fallen out over
compilers has spurred a barrage of reports on comp.arch and comp.sys.intel that the chip
is deader than a dead dodo.»
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- Compaq debuts new
Alpha workstations
- «Compaq announced two new systems based on the Alpha chip today, as it continues to
push this architecture inherited from Digital Equipment. »
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- Compaq's
enterprise plan unfolds
- «Compaq Computer Corp. is expected to put more muscle behind its enterprise channel
strategy with new channel programs for both Tandem and Alpha products at this week's
Collaborative Enterprise solutions conference held here.»
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- API's Slot B
to go against Intel's Slot 2
- «Like the Slot 2 connector used by Intel Corp., Alpha Processor Inc. (API) has
developed a "Slot B" interface to boost the Alpha 21264 microprocessor's
performance.»
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- Alpha-Powered
-- Compaq Releases First Workstation With New 64-Bit Alpha Processor
- «Compaq has begun shipping a new workstation with the latest 64-bit Alpha processor.
The XP1000, based on a 500-MHz CPU, is the first Compaq-branded workstation with an Alpha
chip-technology the vendor acquired as part of its purchase of Digital Equipment last
year.»
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- Merced vs Alpha deal
takes further Compaq twist
- «A press conference in central London today demonstrated the confusion Compaq is
suffering after its takeover of Tandem and Digital. »
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- Compaq still wavering
over Alpha, Merced
- «There is no definitive answer as to where Compaq stands on whether Merced or the Alpha
is a better chip platform. »
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- Compaq contemplating
128-bit Alpha
- «The cost of Alpha chip development after the year 2002 is likely to be over $1.5
billion, a source said today.»
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- Compaq's
John Rose expounds on standardization, Alpha, and direct sales
- «Like most former Digital veterans, John Rose was instrumental in the dramatic changes
in computing through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. At DEC, Rose attained the position of
vice president of the personal computing systems business, before joining Compaq in 1993.
Currently vice president and group general manager of Compaq's enterprise computing group,
Rose spoke with InfoWorld Reporter David Pendery about the PC giant's future direction.»