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Platforms for a New Millenium

Overview Hewlett-Packard (HP) has started to bring Intel Itanium processor–based servers to market. Soon, they plan to transition its 64-bit server products to this processor. However, to address their customer’s needs, HP is allowing them to choose when to implement these new and updated servers. This white paper explains why HP included Itanium-based processors into their systems, and how they are currently rolling them out to their customers smoothly.

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Publisher	Hewlett Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2003	Downloads	21
Format	White Papers
Topics	UNIX, RISC-Based Servers, Windows 3.1 - 95 - 98 - Me, HP-UX, Linux - Open Source, x86-standard Servers, Windows XP

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Dell to phase out Itanium-based servers

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Live Webcast: Telecoms 2.0 - Where is telecoms heading?

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Telecom 2.0: Mind over matter

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IBM Information Server Change Data Capture

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