The loudest support comes from Itanium co-inventor Hewlett-Packard, which will announce the new Integrity name for its Itanium server line Monday and which will begin selling its 64-Itanium Superdome in August.
IBM countered that HP's Itanium Superdome results have used Windows, which has a much less mature collection of software, and that HP has yet to post a Superdome result with HP-UX and Itanium. In addition, IBM's cost per transaction was slightly...
Our sustained market leadership is a critical proof point that we're delivering on our promises and helping customers build the storage foundation of an adaptive enterprise," said Bob Schultz, vice president for HP Network Storage Solutions.
By the end of October, the company will upgrade almost all its Integrity servers with the dual-core chip, ranging from two-processor models to the top-end 64-processor Superdome, said Rich Marcello, general manager of HP's Business Critical Server...
The owner of the oldest system will win an entry-class Integrity server, a licence for HP-UX 11i v3, installation and a three-year Support Plus 24 Care Pack from HP. HP has extended the deadline in its hunt to find the UK's oldest HP-UX installation.
However, we believe the result will be about 80 per cent HP, trying to leverage HP-UX's stronger support among independent software vendors, and about 20 per cent Compaq, including Tru64's best-in-class clustering capabilities," he said.