Cool. Nice partners.
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December 10, 2001 (HONG KONG) -- The Compaq/Intel/Microsoft Technology Center, the first Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Lab in China, opened recently in Hong Kong.
The technology center will enable customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to test and evaluate Windows 2000 Datacenter solutions in a fully equipped computing environment.
According to Tony Parkinson, director, Enterprise Business Group, Compaq Greater China Division, the data center allows customers to assure the reliability and scalability of the Windows 2000 Datacenter solutions on Compaq ProLiant 8500 data center servers with the Intel Xeon processor.
The center provides demonstrations, and proof of concept studies, enables customers to conduct benchmarking or feasibility studies, and will also host customer and ISV porting or development needs. Customers will gain access to multi-vendor client/server computing from Compaq, Intel, and Microsoft, and conduct benchmarking for applications running on the platform under a realistic environment.
They will benefit from the prototyping of real-world scenarios for business applications, as well as from the integrated consulting and technology solutions, according to Chak Wong, director of Platform Marketing and Business Management, Asia Pacific, Intel Corp.
In addition to technology and funding, the three companies will function at different aspects where Microsoft will contribute technical support for Datacenter issues, Intel will offer ISV application porting and development and Compaq will run the day-to-day operations of the center.
(Lung Ho Wang, Hong Kong Editor, Asia BizTech/Nikkei Electronics Asia) |
