Compaq KK to Make PC Servers, Alpha Machines Linux-Capable
April 23, 1999 (TOKYO) -- Compaq KK announced its Linux strategy in Japan on April
20.
The company is expected to first introduce PC servers with guaranteed Linux
operation and Alpha processor-equipped servers/workstations.
It will then promote Linux-equipped models, aimed at Internet service providers and
educational/academic institutions, as well as research facilities of enterprises. At the
same time, it plans to provide a consistent Linux-based service, encompassing system
configuration, through maintenance.
In May 1999, Compaq, together with Pacific HiTech Inc. and Itsutsubashi Research
Co., Ltd., expects to form a newly established "Compaq Linux Competency Center" in
its headquarters in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The center hopes to put forward operation
verification tests on Linux distribution and peripheral equipment, as well as
application software.
Compaq has completed the Linux operation verification tests on the following 10
models: two models of PC servers of the "ProLiant400," four models of the
"ProLiant1600," two models of the "ProLiant1850R," an "AlphaServer DS20" and the
"Professional Workstation XP1000." Compaq hopes to further step up its efforts to
carry out operation verification tests on other machines and also to expand product
lineup of Linux-compliant products.
In addition, Compaq also hopes to simultaneously put forward the task to migrate the
software for the Compaq Tru64 UNIX (former Digital UNIX) to the Alpha-version
Linux. Although Compaq has already been migrating a science and technology
computation library to the Alpha processor, from now on it hopes also to perform the
same task on items such as Fortran and C/C++ Compiler.
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