Mohan & Intel Investors - Compaq Unveils 1998 Road Map
Compaq may be using AMD's K6 and the company formerly known as Cyrix's MediaGX, but in their 1998 Road Map, described below, only CPU's from only ONE VENDOR are mentioned.
Guess which one?
Paul
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zdnet.com
Compaq lays out its '98 road
map
By Lisa DiCarlo, PC Week Online
02.06.98 4:59 pm ET
HOUSTON -- As it digests Digital
Equipment Corp., Compaq Computer
Corp. plans to bombard the corporate
marketplace over the next year with
products from handheld PCs to
eight-processor servers.
The product road map includes a
number of firsts for Compaq, including
Fibre Channel-based storage products, Web-based
management software, and possibly a Palm PC and a 2-pound
computer.
Also on the docket are eight-way servers, a four-way
workstation, rebranding of Compaq's Deskpro PCs and a new
NetPC model.
The product barrage is part of Compaq's bid to become a
soup-to-nuts computer supplier. With the acquisition of Digital,
expected to be finalized by midyear, Compaq will add high-end
servers, Internet technology and expanded services.
"If we're going to be this kind of company, we have to offer
everything," Mike Winkler, senior vice president and group
general manager for the PC products group, said during a
briefing at Compaq's headquarters here this week.
One of the first products out of Compaq's gate will be its Fibre
Channel storage products, due next month. Initially, the
products will work only with Compaq's NT-based servers. But
by year's end, they will be able to communicate with NT servers
from other vendors. Compaq will add support for several Unix
variants in 1999.
Compaq's Fibre Channel storage options will be priced at
about 50 cents per megabyte, said Vic Mahadevan, vice
president and general manager of Compaq's enterprise
storage and options division.
Compaq will release its first Web-based management modules
this summer as part of Insight Manager 4.0, which is bundled
with its NT servers, said Ronnie Ward, vice president and
general manager for Compaq's enterprise solutions division.
Compaq also will debut a four-way Pentium II server by midyear
and eight-way servers, based on technology from Corollary Inc.,
later this year.
On the desktop front, Compaq will rebrand its Deskpro line in
April, when it unveils Pentium II-based business PCs, officials
said.
The company will keep the Deskpro name but replace the
2000, 4000 and 6000 model designations with two or three
models that satisfy six buying considerations such as price
sensitivity and management.
Despite slow sales of its closed-chassis platform, Compaq
also plans to update its NetPC, the Deskpro 4000n, with
266MHz and 300MHz Pentium IIs and bigger hard drives by
midyear.
Compaq will introduce new Pentium II workstations and cut
prices on existing systems next week, then follow in midyear
with models based on Intel Corp.'s Deschutes processor and
four-way Pentium II system by year's end, officials said.
Compaq is mulling plans to deliver a 2-pound, inch-thick
Windows CE-based notebook in addition to a Palm PC, said
Winkler.
The CE notebook, if brought to market, would provide E-mail,
Web browsing and connectivity with desktop personal
information managers. It would be priced at around $1,000 and
have a battery life of up to a week. |
