Intel's latest "Special OP?"
-> Not saying it's for sure, just asking... This is, after all, the time frame in which HQ decided to go with Itanium.
HQ Claims Employee Sabotage
Updated: Wed, Nov 07 10:07 PM EST
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Business Writer
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A Hewlett-Packard Co. employee sabotaged important tests on its Superdome computer server, giving it lower performance marks that cost millions of dollars in company resources and lost sales, HP claims in a lawsuit.
Before he was fired last month, the employee reformatted important computer disks, cut cables to a computer involved in the tests and altered logs to try to hide his acts, according to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in San Jose.
HP said it spent more than $1 million trying to fix the problems this year, which kept it from reporting "what would have been industry-leading results for the Superdome's performance."
HP is asking that the ex-employee, Hock-Beng Lim, be forced to pay unspecified damages and give up any money he may have made by boosting sales of competitors' products.
A listed phone number for Lim could not be obtained, and he did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
The Superdome server has been one of Palo Alto-based HP's more important new products in the past year. It was aimed at companies that need an always-on connection to large databases; prices started at $400,000 when Superdome hit the market in January.
Servers are generally measured by how they do on benchmark tests audited by the Transaction Processing Performance Council, an industry group.
HP said that beginning this year, engineers in Cupertino began to notice "unusual and unexplained failures" on Superdomes running the tests.
It is unclear exactly how much better HP believes Superdome's performance would have been without the alleged sabotage. An HP spokesman declined to comment further.
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