For manageability and total cost of ownership, we think it's a fantastic feature. Other PC manufacturers such as Compaq, Siemens and Toshiba have announced systems that use the new processor, which will originally ship at speeds of 450MHz and 500MHz.
The NetWare Cluster Services works with Novell Directory Services and has been tested with servers from Compaq, Dell, Hewlett Packard and IBM. With NetWare Cluster Services, Novell is finally providing a high-availability solution for NetWare 5.
In April of this year, Austin-based Tantau Software announced the closing of $11m in an initial round of financing led by Austin Ventures, and also announced an agreement with Compaq. This involved acquiring the assets of Compaq's Tektonic Business...
The licensing for MCA was much tighter than for the earlier bus standards and offended other PC makers such as Compaq. In what turned out to be a classic marketing coup, Compaq renamed the old AT bus the 'Industry Standard Architecture'.
Later models will use Athlon chips from Advanced Micro Devices and possibly other Intel-compatible processors, with dual-processor models planned for both chip families. Keeping momentum in the Intel server market is crucial for HP, which acquired...
However, analysts covering enterprise IT users focused on the manageability of HP's new offerings. Other moves in the market, for example Nokia's buyout some 18 months ago of Intellisync, as well as RIM's success with its flavour of end-to-end...