Cringe - Compaq seems to like Intel's Pentium III Xeons and 8-Way Server Chip set.
"Compaq was one of five vendors showing prototype systems here, and the company will be one of the first vendors to launch an eight-way server powered by the new Pentium III Xeon processor, said Tim Golden, director of enterprise server marketing at Compaq's enterprise server group in Houston.
"We want to be on stage with Intel launching these things," Golden said.
Compaq expects to ship its first eight-way Intel server by the end of the second quarter, said Kimmo Alkio, director of marketing and strategy for the enterprise computing group in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Compaq. "
You can check out IBM's comments as well.
Paul
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Vendors itching to ship eight-way Intel servers
By Terho Uimonen and Kristi Essick InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 11:36 AM PT, Mar 19, 1999 HANOVER, Germany -- Held back only by Intel's delay in shipping a key chip set, an eager group of major system vendors here at the CeBit exhibition showed off forthcoming servers featuring up to eight Intel processors.
Intel is currently putting the final touches to the long-awaited Profusion chip set, which has been delayed by several months. The first eight-way servers built around the chip set are now scheduled to hit the market by mid-year, said Pat Gelsinger, Intel's vice president and general manager of the company's desktop products group.
System vendors targeting the enterprise are itching to ship such servers.
Compaq was one of five vendors showing prototype systems here, and the company will be one of the first vendors to launch an eight-way server powered by the new Pentium III Xeon processor, said Tim Golden, director of enterprise server marketing at Compaq's enterprise server group in Houston.
"We want to be on stage with Intel launching these things," Golden said.
Compaq expects to ship its first eight-way Intel server by the end of the second quarter, said Kimmo Alkio, director of marketing and strategy for the enterprise computing group in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Compaq.
Currently, Compaq holds 57 percent of the four-way Intel server market worldwide, and the company is banking on keeping the majority market share of eight-way systems once they come out, Alkio said.
France's Groupe Bull, IBM, NEC of Japan, and Germany's Siemens were the other four vendors to display their forthcoming eight-way Intel server offerings at their booths here.
"We will definitely support the eight-way chipset," said Cary Ziter, an IBM spokesman. IBM plans to launch a NetFinity server based on the Profusion architecture by the end of 1999, he said.
"We are waiting on Intel," Ziter said.
With the Profusion launch in mind, Unix operating system vendor The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) here Thursday launched the high-end data center edition of its UnixWare 7 for Intel architecture, which officials said will allow enterprise users to enjoy the benefits of a widely available and highly standardized hardware infrastructure.
Profusion will allow Microsoft's Windows NT operating system to scale very well, according to Compaq's Golden, but is also a good platform for SCO and Unix as well as the open source Linux operating system.
Large enterprise users in North America, however, are not likely to rush to deploy mission-critical systems on NT, or Windows 2000, as the next version of the operating system will be called, said Dan Kusnetzky, director of operating environments and serverware research at International Data Corp.
Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at www.intel.com.
Terho Uimonen is a correspondent in the Taipei Bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Kristi Essick is a correspondent in the Paris Bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate.
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