HP moles tracked down, eliminated.
by: adamsom55 (36/M/Dislocated) 08/05/02 09:00 am
Well, not exactly:
Response from Magee:
"According to undead and unstomped moles, Mr Burton is a spinner at the Tru64 unit, which is very seriously threatened itself, our HP/UX moles tell us.
On the 27th of August, one of Jim Burton's company's partners told us, HP will announce a 1250MHz ES45, and tell us of the 1GHz GS25 and the 1224MHz GS Series, all to be revealed on the same day."
And then, this, from cnet news.com, oh, my:
...HP, historically the No. 2 Unix server seller after Sun, is upgrading its two Unix server lines, both its in-house product line based on PA-RISC processors and the AlphaServer line acquired from Compaq and based on the Alpha processor. In coming years, HP is phasing out both processors in favor of Intel's Itanium family, which HP helped develop.
HP's upgrades affect both of its Unix server lines, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. Its midrange Unix servers with four, eight or 16 processors are now available with the PA-RISC 8700+, an 875MHz chip that the company introduced in its top-end Superdome servers.
From the Compaq side of the house, HP released a two-processor AlphaServer with 1GHz processors instead of 833MHz. Its four-processor systems have chips running at 1.25GHz, up from 1GHz, while also incorporating larger amounts of cache memory. AlphaServers with four, eight, 16 and 32 processors moved from 1Ghz to 1.224GHz and also come with a larger cache, HP said.
Curiously, news.com announced this with coverage of some sunw stuff, but it occurs to moi that the ONLY reason sunw stuff was there at all was a publicity preemptive air deflator.
That is probably why hpq doesn't like the leaks in the first place .... it gives sun's smoke department some advance notice. |
